A Russianmutant, he is a member of the X-Men. Colossus is able to transform himself into metallic form, making him the physically strongest of the team. Even when his powers are not engaged, he is still a physically imposing figure of 6 ft 7 in (200 cm). He is portrayed as quiet, honest and virtuous, he has had a fairly consistent presence in X-Men-related comic books since his debut. A talented artist, he only reluctantly agrees to use his powers in combat, feeling it is his responsibility to use his abilities for the betterment of human- and mutant-kind.

I just went home and Colossus was one of the first ones that came to mind. We needed a strong guy for the team, so I drew up a strong guy, the character's armor just kind of fell into place. He was accepted pretty much as-is, except that I had given him bare legs because it seemed only logical that if we're going to show him armored up, the legs should be bare like the arms, but Len Wein didn't like male characters with bare legs. So we decided that his costume would be blue when he wasn't armored up, and that we'd see his legs when he was armored up, due to the unstable molecules of his costume.[5]

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A mainstay of the X-Men comic book series until the 1990s, Colossus went on to appear regularly in the first series of Excalibur. While a member of the team, he had his own self-titled one-shot that depicted him and his teammate Meggan battling Arcade at his new Murderworld facility.

After returning to the X-Men alongside Excalibur teammates Shadowcat and Nightcrawler, Colossus stayed with the title until his death, he was later resurrected and was a regular in the third series of Astonishing X-Men written by Joss Whedon. He is the feature of a limited series, Colossus: Bloodlines, in which he journeys back to Russia. Colossus has since returned as a regular in the X-Men series, appearing in various titles such as X-Men: Manifest Destiny, X-Men: Secret Invasion, X-Men, and Astonishing X-Men.

Peter Rasputin was part of the second generation of X-Men, formed by Charles Xavier to save the original X-Men from the living island Krakoa, he agreed to leave the farm community where he was born to go to the United States with Xavier. Xavier gave him the name Colossus, after the battle was won, Colossus remained in the U.S. with the new X-Men.[7]

Colossus is typically portrayed as peaceful, selfless, reluctant to hurt or kill, and often putting himself in danger to protect others; in some of his earliest missions, he battled the Shi'arImperial Guard,[8] and visited the Savage Land,[9] where he met Nereel.[10]

Peter's family always remained in his thoughts and he frequently wrote letters home. Shortly after joining the X-Men, a woman known as Miss Locke kidnapped many of the team's loved ones to force the X-Men to help her free her employer, Arcade, from captivity by one of Doctor Doom's robots. Among her captives was Colossus' younger sister Illyana, whom Locke had kidnapped from the Siberian collective farm and transported to the United States. Arcade brainwashed Colossus into becoming "The Proletarian", who then battled the other X-Men until they countered the brainwashing,[11] the X-Men freed Illyana from captivity, and she went to live with her brother Peter at Xavier's mansion. She was later held captive in a dimension known as Limbo, where she spent years while only mere moments elapsed on Earth, and became the adolescent sorceress Magik, as a result, an alternate-timeline version of Colossus dies in Limbo.[12]

When the X-Men fought the evil mutant Proteus, Colossus attempted to kill Proteus, an act he found morally questionable even though he did it to save Moira MacTaggart's life,[13] during his early career with the X-Men, Peter started what was arguably his most significant relationship with fellow X-Man Kitty Pryde.[14] Although they were only a couple for a short while, the relationship provided the foundation of a deep and lasting friendship.

During the Mutant Massacre, Colossus became heavily involved in the X-Men's efforts to save the Morlocks from the Marauders. When Kitty was severely injured by Harpoon, Peter gave in to his rage and snapped Riptide's neck,[18] he eventually passed out from previous wounds inflicted by Riptide. Magneto, with the aid of Shadowcat, used his powers to heal Peter's armored form, but the process left him paralyzed. He was sent to Muir Island to recuperate, along with Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and the surviving Morlocks.

Over time, Colossus' wounds healed, but he was trapped in his armoured form and could maintain his human form only with the utmost concentration. When he saw the X-Men in Dallas during the Fall of the Mutants, he had his sister teleport him to the battle, as Destiny had not seen him in her vision of the X-Men's demise. When the team decided to sacrifice themselves to stop the Adversary, Colossus gave his life alongside them to save the world. Like the rest of the X-Men, he was revived by Roma and decided to let the world believe him dead while he and the X-Men worked out of an Australian base.[19]

Following the Inferno event, Illyana was returned to her original Earth age.[20] Colossus decided it would be better for Illyana if she went back to live with their parents in Russia.

In time, Colossus was reunited with Nereel in the Savage Land, and met her son.[21]

After the X-Men began falling apart with Rogue vanishing, Wolverine taking off, Longshot quitting, and Storm apparently killed, Psylocke telepathically prodded the remaining three to disband and travel through the Siege Perilous to gain new lives.[22] Peter emerged in New York with no memory of his past life, inventing a new persona for himself as 'Peter Nicholas', where he quickly became a successful artist, he battled the Genoshan Magistrates.[23] He began having visions of a beautiful model, who turned out to be Callisto transformed by Masque, the two were kidnapped by the Morlocks, though Peter had no memory of his time with the X-Men.[24] He resumed his armored form and defeated Masque,[25] he was saved by Forge, Banshee, and Jean Grey, who decided it better that he live his new life rather than be dragged back into theirs.[26]

Peter was psychically dominated by the Shadow King and sent to hunt down Stevie Hunter and Charles Xavier.[27] Xavier had no choice but to destroy the Peter Nicholas persona to break the Shadow King's hold.[28] Colossus joined in the battle of Muir Island, and rejoined the X-Men as a member of Storm's Gold Strike Force.[29] Peter is shown to be traveling to the Savage Land, where he locates Nereel, he is astonished to learn that the child she bore was not his, but that of another lover. Disheartened, he departs the Savage Land.[volume & issue needed]

The X-Men later found themselves in another dimension, where they discovered that Colossus' brother, Mikhail, was alive and acting as a messiah to the population of that world.[volume & issue needed] Mikhail returned to Earth with the X-Men, but was distraught with having been responsible for the deaths of the original crew from his first trek into the other dimension.[30]

Mikhail established himself as leader of the Morlocks and planned to use them as a part of his mass suicide which he thought would grant him retribution or at least reprieve from his guilt.[volume & issue needed] This would prove to be a great source of grief for Peter in an upcoming string of family deaths that would lead to him temporarily disbanding from the X-Men.[volume & issue needed]

However, unbeknownst to the X-Men, Mikhail survived; in a seemingly last second change of mind, Mikhail transported himself and the Morlocks to another world.[volume & issue needed] Later, upon learning this, Peter was disappointed by his brother's departure and blamed himself.[volume & issue needed]

Back in Siberia, Peter's parents were slain and Illyana kidnapped by the Russian government, who hoped to genetically evolve Illyana to the point where she would have the use of her powers again, to defeat the mutant known as the Soul Skinner. Colossus, with the help of the X-Men, saved Illyana and brought her back to the Mansion.[31]

Later, Illyana became an early victim of the Legacy Virus and died from it,[32] the loss of his immediate family, as well as brain damage that forced him to remain in armored form, caused Colossus to rethink his position with the X-Men and join Magneto and his Acolytes, who had offered him an alternative to the X-Men's pacifist philosophy of peaceful mutant/human coexistence.[33] Colossus recovered from the brain damage soon after,[34] but decided to remain with the Acolytes of his own volition, hoping he could temper their extremist methods with what he had learned from Professor Xavier.[35]

His stay with Magneto was not long once he realized that Avalon was not the place for him, either, particularly after Magneto was left brain-dead and the space station was destroyed by Holocaust.[volume & issue needed] He left in search of the only person he felt truly cared for him, his former love and teammate Shadowcat, now a member of Excalibur. Colossus traveled to England, where he found Kitty in the arms of her new love, Pete Wisdom. Colossus, exhausted, mentally ill, and enraged, attacked Wisdom and, although the battle was short, Piotr nearly killed him. Colossus was subdued by Captain Britain and Meggan,[36] later cured of his illness by Moira MacTaggert.[volume & issue needed]

Colossus accepted Shadowcat's new life and chose to become a member of Excalibur.[volume & issue needed] Although Colossus, along with the rest of the team, soon accepted Kitty's relationship with Wisdom, Kitty's pet dragon, Lockheed, did not, and was often seen trying to reunite Kitty with Peter, whom he much preferred. One such example being snatching away the garter during Meggan and Captain Britain's wedding and dropping it into Colossus' hand, who was then required to place it on Kitty's leg, who had previously caught the bride's flowers,[37] with Excalibur, he participated in many adventures, including helping to save London from an ancient demon.[volume & issue needed] Excalibur eventually disbanded, and Colossus returned with Nightcrawler and Shadowcat to the X-Men, but as soon as they returned, they faced a group of imposters following Cerebro, in the guise of Professor X.[38][39] During this time, he repaired his friendships with Wolverine and Storm, that were broken when he had joined the Acolytes.[volume & issue needed] He formed a deep friendship with Marrow.[volume & issue needed] Peter again found his long thought-dead brother Mikhail, but unfortunately lost him again when Apocalypse collected The Twelve in his quest for power.[volume & issue needed]

Using thoughts and notes from the recently murdered Moira MacTaggert, the X-Men's resident scientist, Beast, claimed to have found the cure for the Legacy Virus. Unfortunately, it could only be made airborne with the death of its first user. Rather than wait for a safer version and allow others to die as Illyana had, Colossus injected himself with the cure. By using his powers and sacrificing himself, Colossus enabled the release of an airborne cure, effectively eradicating the disease, his body was cremated, and Shadowcat took his ashes back to Russia to be scattered on his native soil.[40]

Nearly two years later, it was brought to the attention of the X-Men that a medical company, entitled Benetech, had developed a mutant cure, after gaining a sample of the cure, Dr. Henry (Beast) McCoy discovered a string of DNA hidden deep within the recesses of the formula, after matching the DNA, Beast and the other X-Men set out to investigate the truth behind Benetech.

During their infiltration, they discovered that Ord, an alien from the Breakworld, was responsible for the means with which the company was able to develop the cure. While the team was separated, Kitty descended into a hidden complex beneath the Benetech building and was able to unlock the true secret behind the cure: shortly after Peter's self-sacrificing death, Ord had captured his body and left a duplicate that the X-Men had cremated.[41]

After reviving him, Ord had used the Legacy Virus cure in Peter's bloodstream to develop his mutant cure, after unknowingly releasing Peter from his cell, Kitty rejoined him with the X-Men. Together they subdued Ord as he tried to escape Earth, since reuniting with his friends, Peter has returned to fight with the X-Men, and he and Kitty were able to resume their romantic relationship.[41]

During the Colossus: Bloodline limited series, Colossus made a trip to Russia in response to a call for help from his cousin, journalist Larisa Mishchenko, her research had established that their family descended from Grigori Rasputin, and that their relatives were being systematically murdered. Rasputin is established as having been a powerful mutant, whose power and life essence had been passed down to his descendants, as his descendants are murdered, his great power is invested in greater measure in the remaining descendants. When there is only one descendant left, Rasputin will be reborn within that individual. Mister Sinister, an old ally of Rasputin, is revealed as the man behind the murders.[volume & issue needed]

Larisa is murdered by Sinister, but Colossus and his brother Mikhail foil Sinister's plot, and Mikhail banishes himself to a dimension where he can never die, but from which he can never return. If Sinister were to murder Colossus, Rasputin would be reborn in Mikhail, but locked in a dimension on his own. However, all those involved remained unaware of Colossus' son, Peter, in the Savage Land, whose presence could severely alter the situation. Colossus returned to the X-Men, a man without family, it is rumoured that the boy Michael Termani escaped the extermination and made his way to the United States of America in search of Colossus, whom he may be related to.[volume & issue needed]

Colossus in promotional art for the Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 story arc Unstoppable (2007); by John Cassaday

During an attack on the institute, Colossus engages Sebastian Shaw, although "Shaw" turned out to be an illusory attack by Cassandra Nova, it was revealed that Colossus is the mutant destined to destroy Breakworld according to the Breakworld's precogs. However, on a mission to the Breakworld, the X-Men discover that this was not an actual prophecy but an elaborate scheme created by Aghanne, the insane leader of a Breakworld reform cult, intended to bring about that world's destruction. Colossus is chosen for the prophecy as his unique organic steel form would allow him to destroy the planet's power source, initiating a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world. Realizing this, Colossus refuses to kill the planet although he does threaten to seize power and rule it if the Breakworld destroys the Earth as planned.[42]

During the "World War Hulk" storyline, Colossus is one of the X-Men members that tries to defend Professor X against the Hulk, who has come looking for Charles as he is one of the members of the secret Illuminati that exiled him from Earth. During their battle, the Hulk reflects on Colossus' bravery, mentioning that Colossus might have made a "decent opponent" to the Hulk's previous incarnations. Locked in a test of strength, Hulk demonstrates his superior power by bending Colossus's arms backwards at the forearms, breaking them.[43] Beast later uses a laser in the lab to heat his arms up near their melting point, while Strong Guy bends them back into place; his arms needed to be re-set in their metal form before he transformed back to his human form to avoid serious injury to them.[44]

Colossus returns to Russia with Wolverine and Nightcrawler along for the ride, the trio are captured by the Russian government, who wish to find out why all their mutant agents succumbed to M-Day, and Colossus did not. This led to a battle against the Russians and Omega Red, who was being examined by their captors, after defeating Omega Red, the heroes receive a call from Cyclops informing them of their new home in San Francisco. They soon arrive back in the States, where they aid in rebuilding the X-Men.[45]

Joining the rest of the X-Men, Colossus relocates to San Francisco.[47] Still mourning Kitty, the other X-Men try to cheer him up using various different methods from picking fights with him to throwing a party; in the end he tells them to leave him be, he just needs time. Later while walking through Golden Gate Park, he come across a little girl who needs help rescuing her Kitty from a tree to which he replies that nothing would make him happier.[48]

Colossus feels the X-Men are not doing enough to rescue Illyana from Limbo, and is upset,[49] with the aid of Pixie, the team is able to enter Limbo, where they encounter hostile demons.[50] After defeating the demons, the X-Men locate Illyana, who has been defeated by Witchfire,[51] the X-Men and Magik defeat Witchfire by trapping her in the dimension that houses the Elder Gods. Illyana leaves Limbo with the X-Men when Cyclops and Colossus offer her a home.[52]

When the Dark Avengers head into San Francisco to battle any X-Men they can find, Colossus battles Venom,[53] they later face off again when the combined Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men attack Utopia, with Colossus and the X-Men emerging victorious.[54] It's also during this time that Colossus suffers from depression due to the loss of Kitty prior to the Messiah Complex, during this period, Magik arrives at Utopia to ask for help from the X-Men and her former teammates as there's a battle coming in Limbo. The reunion helps alleviate some of Colossus's depression, but after Magneto comes to Utopia, Magneto brings the bullet carrying Kitty back to Earth to save her in a show of good faith and Kitty and Colossus are reunited, but are initially unable to touch as Kitty spent so long phased to stop the bullet hitting something that she has 'forgotten' how to resume a tangible state on her own.[55] Due to Warlord Krunn's mutant cure, Colossus was temporarily depowered and beaten in battle by him,[56] but other Breakworld residents were able to restore Kitty to her fully tangible state.[volume & issue needed]

Colossus as the newly appointed Juggernaut on the cover of Uncanny X-Men #543 (September 2011). Art by Greg Land.

After the Juggernaut became Kuurth: Breaker of Stone, one of the Heralds of a long-dormant god of fear known as the Serpent, Colossus made a bargain with Cyttorak, the other-dimensional being who originally empowered the Juggernaut, to gain the power to stand against Kuurth. Colossus became the new avatar of the Juggernaut and was able to push Cain Marko back until Cain was summoned by The Serpent, this decision caused Kitty to break up with Colossus, as she cannot cope with his increasingly displayed willingness to sacrifice himself when she wants someone who will be willing to live for her.[57]

Due to this, Colossus decides to stay on Utopia with Cyclops' team of X-Men instead of returning to Westchester due to his fear of his new Juggernaut powers being unsafe around children,[58] after another stressful battle, Colossus realized that his powers were far more dangerous than he realized, and he requested to be locked up alongside his sister, only to be freed when needed on missions.[59]

At the onset of the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Colossus is featured in fights against several characters, including Spider-Man,[60]Red Hulk,[61] and Thing.[62] He is one of the few X-Men teleported by Magik to the dark side of the moon to confront the Avengers over Hope Summers. When the disruptor devised by Iron Man blasts and divides the Phoenix Force, part of it bonds to Colossus, who becomes one of the Phoenix Five along with Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Namor,[63] he attempts to release his Juggernaut powers, but Cyttorak refuses, citing his affiliation with the Phoenix due to his newfound destructive powers.[64] While empowered with his fragment of the Phoenix Force, Colossus attempts to regain Kitty's affections, but she rejects him—wary of his power-mongering and that the Phoenix has changed him for the worse—he reacts angrily.[65] Colossus is eventually defeated when Spider-Man manages to provoke him and Magik into attacking each other, causing them to incapacitate each other, their Phoenix powers dissipate and are absorbed by Emma Frost and Cyclops (Namor having already been defeated).[66] Following the defeat of Cyclops as the last of the Phoenix Five, Colossus and the other former members of the Phoenix Five did not surrender themselves to the authorities.[67] Magik later purges the Juggernaut powers from Colossus with her Soulsword.[68] Knowing that Magik could have repelled his servitude to Cyttorak at any time and that she made him keep the Juggernaut powers to teach him a lesson, Colossus evinces hatred toward the sister he once loved, going so far as to say he wants her killed.[69]

Colossus's powers have gone out of control, apparently as a result of losing the Phoenix Force, causing parts of him to shift between flesh and organic steel rather than all flesh or all organic steel,[70] he now appears as a member of Cable's new X-Force team after Cable provides him with a device that stabilizes his condition.[71]

Colossus has since rejoined Wolverine's team of X-Men,[72] after quitting Cable's X-Force team following the results of the Cable and X-Force/Uncanny X-Force: Vendettas storyline.[volume & issue needed] It is eventually discovered that Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Magneto and Colossus were actually infected with nano-sentinels by Dark Beast, after the incident with the Phoenix Force, and that was the real cause for their broken powers.[volume & issue needed] He has since regained control of his organic steel powers and has stopped wearing Cable's harness which helped him to stabilize his flesh and steel forms.[72]

During the Secret Wars storyline, Colossus is with the X-Men when they take part in the incursion event between Earth-616 and Earth-1610, the Hulk's Doc Green form uses Colossus in a Fastball Special that destroys the Triskelion.[73]

Colossus later joins Storm's new team of X-Men who are living in an isolated part of Limbo after magically transporting the mansion there, renaming it X-Haven, their mission is to provide a refuge and protect mutants from the effects of the M-Pox that has infected the mutants and rendered almost all of the mutant species sterile due to the Terrigen in the atmosphere.[volume & issue needed] During the Apocalypse Wars, Colossus, Ernst, Anole, Glob Herman and No-Girl are separated from Storm's team. When they re-encounter the missing students, they discover them to be now adults protecting an ark of 600 artificially created mutant embryos from the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse: one of whom is a celestially altered Colossus.[74]

Colossus was eventually found by his teammates Iceman and Nightcrawler[75] and teleported back to X-Haven by Cerebra.[76] There, he was transformed back to normal by Apocalypse, who was tricked into doing so by Nightcrawler.[77]

After Beast discovers that there isn't a cure for the M-Pox and no way to alter the Terrigen cloud the X-Men are left with the choice to either stay on earth and fight for their right to live and risk becoming extinct in a matter of weeks or leave earth and start fresh somewhere else, the X-Men decide to go to war against theInhumans to decide the fate of the Terrigen. With the war underway Colossus is stationed at X-Haven to protect it from a potential Inhuman counter-attack. When the Inhuman Royal Family arrives to do just that, Colossus is left to face them on his own, he later joins the rest of the X-Men in Iceland in the final battle against the Inhumans, where Medusa finally understands what the X-Men are fighting for so she voluntarily destroys the Terrigen.[78]

After the Terrigen is destroyed the X-Men sends the refugees back home from X-Haven now that earth is habitable for mutants again. Still, the X-Men find themselves wondering how to move forward with the events of the war still fresh in their minds. Storm asks Kitty Pryde to return to the X-Men and take her place as leader, and in doing so Kitty moves the mansion from Limbo to Central Park and creates a new field team and recruits Colossus. Colossus and Kitty share many awkward moments given their history, trying to move forward as friends but still feeling a chemistry.[79]

Colossus is a mutant with the ability to transform his entire body into a form of "organic steel", with properties similar to osmium but of still unknown composition. Colossus must transform his entire body into this armored state; he cannot transform only a portion of his body. When he transforms, he gains approximately 1 ft (30 cm) in height; official figures state his height at about 7 ft 5 in (230 cm) in transformed state versus 6 ft 6 in (200 cm) in normal human form) and his weight is at least doubled.[80] In his armored form, Colossus possesses superhuman levels of strength, as well as superhuman stamina and durability, his physical strength is currently greater than when he first joined the X-Men due to the realignment of his cells by Magneto following an injury during the Mutant Massacre. While in his armored form, Colossus requires no food, water, or even oxygen to sustain himself, and is extremely resistant to injury, he is capable of withstanding great impacts, large caliber bullets, falling from tremendous heights, electricity, and certain magical attacks.[81] While he has great resistance to temperature extremes of hot and cold, extreme heat followed by rapid super-cooling has been shown to cause extreme damage, as he is vulnerable to the anti-metal vibranium in his metal form, his body instinctively shifts to human form when faced with a vibranium weapon.[82]

Colossus is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, having received training from Wolverine and Cyclops, he has had training in acrobatics and sword fighting from Nightcrawler. In his human form, he is still exceptionally strong and in superb physical condition, though not superhumanly so, he has completed college-level courses at Xavier's school.

As the unstoppable Avatar of Cyttorak, Colossus gained additional superhuman strength and resistance to injury, as well as other mystical powers, among these is the power to ignore impediments to his movement, hence the "unstoppable" moniker.[57]

Colossus is featured in X-Men, voiced by Rick Bennett in "The Unstoppable Juggernaut" and by Robert Cait in "Red Dawn".[citation needed] He also made several other silent cameos throughout the series.

Colossus appears in the 2000 animated series X-Men: Evolution, voiced by Michael Adamthwaite.[citation needed] He appears as a member of Magneto's Acolytes as seen in the two-part episode "Day of Reckoning", his reason for being a member of the Acolytes is that Magneto is threatening his family. He reveals this to Wolverine and later tries to defy Magneto's threats against his family. Following Magneto's disappearance, Colossus returned to Russia but returned to help the X-Men in their battle against Apocalypse. When Professor Xavier saw the future, he saw Colossus as one of the X-Men.

Colossus appears in a non-speaking cameo in the final episode of Marvel Anime: X-Men.[citation needed] He is among the other X-Men members and other heroes that Professor X reaches out to in order to deal with the worldwide crisis that was being caused by Takeo Sasaki.

Colossus has a brief cameo as a student sketching in the Xavier Institute's courtyard in the 2000 film X-Men, played by Donald Mackinnon.[citation needed]

Colossus is played by Daniel Cudmore in the 2003 film X2.[citation needed] He helps several of the younger mutants escape the Xavier Institute during William Stryker's raid on the mansion. When Colossus offers to help Wolverine, he tells Colossus to help get the uncaptured students away from the X-Mansion.

Cudmore reprised his role as Colossus in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past.[86] He is one of the few surviving X-Men in the future, at the beginning of the film, Colossus attempts to stall the Sentinels so that Kitty and Bishop could change the past, but has his arm punched off and head crushed by a Sentinel that mimics his organic steel flesh and uses his own powers against him. However, Kitty and Bishop change the past and Colossus survives. While stalling the Sentinels so that Wolverine could change the timeline, he is torn in half while in his organic steel form. When the timeline is eventually corrected, Colossus is seen teaching with Kitty Pryde when Wolverine wanders through the X-Mansion. A viral marketing website for X-Men: Days of Future Past shows Colossus as one of the mutant babies born prematurely after the Chernobyl disaster.[87]

Colossus appears in the 2016 film Deadpool via CGI.[88]Andre Tricoteux and T.J. Storm provided motion-capture stunt for Colossus in the film,[89] Glenn Ennis provided the initial facial shapes,[90] the film's motion capture supervisor Greg LaSalle provided the final facial performance,[91] while the character is voiced by Serbian actor Stefan Kapičić.[92][93]Deadpool director Tim Miller stated that Cudmore was originally offered the role, but he declined to return.[94] Cudmore also confirmed on his Twitter account that he would not be returning as Colossus for the film,[95][96] and that he declined to return when he was informed that his voice would be dubbed by Kapičić;[97] in the film, he tries to recruit Deadpool into the X-Men while teaching him the morality of being a superhero alongside his X-Men trainee Negasonic Teenage Warhead. He is unsuccessful and after Ajax escapes, Deadpool attempts to fight him in a fit of anger, he then handcuffs Deadpool and attempts to bring him back to the X-Mansion, but Deadpool cuts his own hand off and escapes via a dump truck on the freeway. Later, Deadpool calls for his and Negasonic's help in rescuing Vanessa (as they are, as he notes, the only X-Men the studiocould afford) in exchange for joining the X-Men. While Deadpool fights Ajax, Colossus fights Angel Dust, who he defeats with the help of Negasonic. Colossus later tries to stop Deadpool from killing Ajax, pleading for him to spare his enemy's life. Ultimately, his plea falls on deaf ears and Deadpool shoots Ajax in the head, despite this act, Colossus exits the film with continued faith in Deadpool's ability to do good.

Colossus is a playable character in the home console videogame Lego Marvel Super Heroes,[102] voiced by John DiMaggio.[citation needed] During the mission at the X-Mansion, Colossus was seen in the background fighting Juggernaut, he can be unlocked as a playable character by defeating the Sentinel that attacks the X-Mansion.

The X-Men/Star Trek crossover novel Planet X has the X-Men transported into the Star Trek universe; Colossus is seen transforming into his metal form and is mistaken for a Founder by Starfleet personnel.

^Williams, Owen (July 29, 2015). "Exclusive Deadpool Trailer Breakdown". EmpireOnline.com. [Tim Miller:] I did actually call Daniel Cudmore to ask him if he wanted to do this, even though he’d be entirely CG the whole time. He was very nice about it, he was like, 'I appreciate your offering, but nah.'

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Second Coming is a crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics that ran through the most of the X-Men comic books from March to July 2010. Second Coming was the part of a trilogy of stories that began with Messiah Complex. The story centers on the return of Cable and Hope Summers to the present day, the story follows the return of Cable and Hope from the future to the present. Their arrival sparks off action from Bastion and his allies Stephen Lang, Bolivar Trask, William Stryker, Graydon Creed, Bastion tells them that the Mutant Messiah has returned and gives them orders to kill her. In a motel a fire-fight between Cable, Hope and the Purifiers breaks out, Wolverine and the others arrive to help them, as the Alpha Team battle Stryker and his Purifiers, Magik makes her way toward Hope under orders from Wolverine to teleport her to Utopia. One of the Purifiers opens a portal to Limbo that Magik cannot control, the Purifiers also incapacitate Nightcrawler with disorienting weaponry to prevent him from teleporting. Wolverines team find Cable and Hope and after a confrontation with another group of Sapien League members the X-Men. Cable remains behind with some of the X-Men after learning from the New Mutants that Cable was being tracked, while Rogue, Nightcrawler, parallel to this the New Mutants arrive at Cameron Hodges facility. Cameron Hodge impales Karmas leg in the battle, leading to an eventual amputation, the New Mutants warn Cyclops of Bastions towers. In a missile strike, Ariel is killed, Bastion is targeting the X-Mens teleporters, shortly after Cyclops loses contact with the Alpha and Beta teams. The Alpha Team has been attacked by armored soldiers and in response, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Hope arrive in Nevada where Bastion appears before them and brutally beats Rogue. Just as Bastion extends his arm to kill Hope, Nightcrawler teleports between them and is impaled in the chest, Nightcrawler teleports Hope to Utopia where he tells her that he believes in her before he dies. When the Alpha Team returns to Utopia Colossus wants Pixie to rescue Magik from Limbo, in Nevada Bastion repairs himself and tells his followers to prepare for Plan B. As evening falls Nightcrawlers funeral is held with Beast arriving to place blame on Cyclops shoulders, three and a half miles away from San Francisco the X-Club investigate an oil rig and discover a ticking timer. Suddenly an explosion is felt and Cyclops is certain that the X-Mens jets, donald Pierce is found standing amid the debris and rues that he will not live to witness the decimation of the mutant race. Cyclops eliminates him with an optic blast and alerts the X-Men to expect an attack, with no teleporters, no planes, and no Cerebra, Cyclops announces that they are trapped on Utopia. Meanwhile, the X-Club Science team are caught in a trap of their own as they recover from the oil rig explosion, through a conversation between Dr. Nemesis and the others it is revealed that they are stranded just outside San Francisco and Utopia. Suddenly an offshore explosion rocks Utopia sending the X-Men reeling, when the X-Men gather near the Bay they find a massive dome of energy enveloping both San Francisco and Utopia

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Adi Granov
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Adi Granov is a Bosnian-American comic book artist and conceptual designer. He is best known for his work with Marvel Comics, for whom most of his comics work is produced. Granov has also done work for the films The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Adi Granov was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,1994, 16-year-old Granov fled Bosnia with his mother and his sister, four years his junior, to escape the Bosnian War. They emigrated to the United States, where Granov spent the ten years living in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. His names as his artistic influences Moebius, Hajime Sorayama. Granov spent his last three years in the U. S. in Chicago doing design work for Nintendo Software Technology, working on Bionic Commando and Wave Race, Blue Storm, among other titles. While in Chicago he obtained his first illustration work for a Dreamwave Productions, a comics publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Though his work on their book, NecroWar, was well-received, granovs fortunes changed one morning when he received an unsolicited email from Marvel Comics, stating that they liked his work, and inviting to work for them. Granov accepted, and his first job for them was interior and his work was a success, and as a result, Granov was teamed with writer/novelist Warren Ellis for the 2005-06, six-issue miniseries Iron Man, Extremis. The Extremis storyline would subsequently be adapted into the 2013 film Iron Man 3, in 2004 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada named Granov as one of the Young Guns, a group of artists who have the qualities to make a future superstar penciler. Granovs subsequent cover work for Marvel includes books such as She-Hulk, Inhumans, Thor X-Men, The Amazing Spider-Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Captain America and he has illustrated short stories for Astonishing X-Men and Dark Reign titles. Granov also directed the building of 3D models at Stan Winston Studios and that same month, Marvel debuted Iron Man, Viva Las Vegas, a two-issue miniseries written by director Jon Favreau, and illustrated by Granov, which pit the armored Avenger against Fin Fang Foom. Granov would later do concept work on the 2012 film The Avengers and he has also provided artwork for the packaging of action figures and other toys based on those characters. Granov provided the illustrations for the packaging of the band Tools 21st anniversary re-release of their debut album and he has worked on packaging illustration, design and consulting for high-end toy company Play Imaginative for their line of collectible Iron Man figures. When Granov started posting his work on an Internet art forum, he became friends with that sites moderator and they eventually met and married, and made their home in Ilkey. Granov says of the town, Ilkley was the first place I saw in England, I had always lived in cities, Sarajevo, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles for a few months, Chicago. But to see the moors and the countryside and the beautiful town, Tamsin arranges his convention appearances, handles sales of his art, and also helped organize Thought Bubble, a comics convention based in Leeds

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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences

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Len Wein
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Len Wein is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons influential DC miniseries Watchmen, Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Wein was born in New York City, and was raised in a Jewish household, in a 2003 interview, Len Wein recalled that he was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my dad brought me a stack of books to keep me occupied. Approximately once a month, as a teenager, Wein and his friend Marv Wolfman took DC Comics weekly Thursday afternoon tour of the companys offices, Wolfman was active in fanzine culture, and together he and Wein produced sample superhero stories to show to the DC editorial staff. At that point, Wein was more interested in becoming an artist than a writer, eventually, DC editor Joe Orlando hired both Wolfman and Wein as freelance writers. Weins first professional comics story was Eye of the Beholder in DCs Teen Titans No,18, for which he co-created with Wolfman Red Star, the first official Russian superhero in the DC universe. Neal Adams was called upon to rewrite and redraw a Teen Titans story which had written by Wein. The story, titled Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho, would have introduced DCs first African American superhero but was rejected by publisher Carmine Infantino. The revised story appeared in Teen Titans No.20, later that year, Wein was writing anthological mystery stories for DCs The House of Secrets and Marvels Tower of Shadows and Chamber of Darkness. Weins first superhero work for Marvel was a story in Daredevil No.71 co-written with staff writer/editor Roy Thomas. Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson created the horror character Swamp Thing in The House of Secrets No.92, abigail Arcane, a major supporting character in the characters mythos was introduced by Wein and Wrightson in Swamp Thing No.3. Wein wrote the story featuring Man-Thing, introducing Barbara Morse and the concept that Whoever Knows Fear Burns at the Man-Things Touch. In the fall of 1972, Wein and writers Gerry Conway, each comic featured Englehart, Conway, and Wein, as well as Weins first wife Glynis, interacting with Marvel or DC characters at the Rutland Halloween Parade in Rutland, Vermont. 16, the story continued in Justice League of America No,103, and concluded in Thor No.207. As Englehart explained in 2010, It certainly seemed like a concept and we knew that we had to be subtle and each story had to stand on its own. Libra, a supervillain created by Wein and Dillin in Justice League of America No,111, would play a leading role in Grant Morrisons Final Crisis storyline in 2008. Wein co-created the Human Target with artist Carmine Infantino and wrote the characters appearances as a feature in Action Comics, Detective Comics, and The Brave

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Dave Cockrum
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David Emmett Dave Cockrum was an American comic book artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus. Cockrum was a prolific and inventive costume designer who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes and he did the same for the new X-Men and many of their antagonists in the 1970s and early 1980s. Cockrum was born on November 11,1943, in Pendleton, Oregon and his father was a lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force, resulting in the Cockrums frequently transporting their household from one city to another for years. Cockrum discovered comic books at an age, an early favorite was Fawcetts Captain Marvel. Other artists whose work the young Cockrum admired were Wally Wood, Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson, a letter from Cockrum in Fantastic Four #34 led to a correspondence with Andrea Kline, who later became his first wife. Cockrums ambition was to become a comic-book creator himself, following his school graduation, Cockrum joined the United States Navy for six years. During this time, Cockrum married Kline and had a child with her and he created the character Nightcrawler during this time, though the character would not be used until years later. Despite serving during the Vietnam War, Cockrum found time to contribute artwork to comics such as Star-Studded Comics. After leaving the military, Cockrum found employment with Warren Publishing and he was then hired as an assistant inker to Murphy Anderson, who was inking various titles featuring Superman and Superboy for DC Comics. At the time, Superboy featured a Legion of Super-Heroes backup strip, when the position of artist for The Legion of Super-Heroes was left vacant, Cockrum sought the job and was rewarded with his first assignment drawing a series. Cockrums work on the feature, beginning with a story in Superboy #184. Cockrum drew the story wherein the characters Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel were married in Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #200, Cockrum eventually left DC and the Legion in a dispute involving the return of his original artwork from that issue. Prior to his departure, Cockrum had been preparing to be the regular artist on an ongoing Captain Marvel, Jr. back-up strip in the Shazam. Moving over to a position at Marvel, Cockrum and Len Wein under the direction of editor Roy Thomas created the new X-Men, co-creating such characters as Storm, Nightcrawler. Storm and Nightcrawler were directly based on characters which Cockrum had intended to introduce into the Legion of Super-Heroes storyline had he remained on the title and these characters made their debut in Giant-Size X-Men #1, and then in a relaunched Uncanny X-Men. Journalist Tom Spurgeon wrote, Cockrums penciled interiors on those first few issues of the new X-Men were dark, Cockrum gave those first few issues of X-Men a sumptuous, late-70s cinema style that separated the book from the rest of Marvels line, and superhero comics in general. Reading those X-Men comics felt like sneaking into a movie starring Sean Connery or Sigourney Weaver, Uncanny X-Men really felt new and different, almost right away, and Cockrums art was a tremendous part of that. Cockrum stayed with the title until 1977, when he was succeeded by penciller John Byrne with issue #108, the final issue of his run introduced the Starjammers, a spacefaring superhero team he had originally intended to debut in their own series

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X-Men
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The X-Men is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 and they are among the most recognizable and successful intellectual properties of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games. The X-Men are mutants, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities, the X-Men fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants in a world where antimutant bigotry is fierce and widespread. They are led by Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X and their archenemy is Magneto, a powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Professor X and Magneto have opposing views and philosophies regarding the relationship between mutants and humans, Professor X is the founder of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters at a location commonly called the X-Mansion, which recruits mutants from around the world. Located in Westchester County, New York, the X-Mansion is the home and training site of the X-Men. The founding five members of the X-Men who appear in The X-Men #1 are Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, since then, dozens of mutants from various countries and diverse backgrounds have held membership as X-Men. In 2004, Stan Lee recalled, I couldnt have everybody bitten by a spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the way out. I said to myself, Why dont I just say theyre mutants, in a 1987 interview, Jack Kirby said, The X-Men, I did the natural thing there. What would you do with mutants who were just plain boys and girls, so I gave them a teacher, Professor X. Of course, it was the thing to do, instead of disorienting or alienating people who were different from us, I made the X-Men part of the human race. Possibly, radiation, if it is beneficial, may create mutants that’ll save us instead of doing us harm. I felt that if we train the mutants our way, they’ll help us - and not only help us, and so, we could all live together. Lee devised the title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, The Mutants. Within the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have named after Professor Xavier himself. Xavier however claims that the name X-Men was never chosen as a tribute to himself, the name is also linked to the X-Gene, an unknown gene that causes the mutant evolution. The original explanation for the name, as provided by Xavier in The X-Men #1, is that mutants possess an extra power, one which ordinary humans do not

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Defenders (comics)
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The Defenders is a set of fictional superhero groups with fluctuating membership appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are usually presented as a non-team of individualistic outsiders who, the team often battles mystic and supernatural threats. Its original incarnation was led by Doctor Strange and included Hulk, Namor and they first appeared as the Defenders in Marvel Feature #1. The group had a rotating line-up from 1972 until 1986, with Dr, the publication was retitled near the end of the run as The New Defenders but featured none of the original members and only Valkyrie, the Beast and the Gargoyle of the former long-term members. The concept was modified in the 1993–95 series Secret Defenders, in which Dr. Strange assembled different teams for each individual mission, the original team was reunited in a short-lived 2001 series by Kurt Busiek and Erik Larsen. In 2005 Marvel published a miniseries featuring the classic line-up by J. M. DeMatteis, Keith Giffen. In December 2011 writer Matt Fraction and artist Terry Dodson launched a Defenders series with a mixture of classic and new members, which lasted for 12 issues. A TV miniseries titled The Defenders is scheduled to premiere in 2017 on Netflix, with the team consisting of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, the origin of the Defenders lies in two crossover story arcs by Roy Thomas prior to the official founding of the team. The first, in Doctor Strange #183, Sub-Mariner #22, and The Incredible Hulk #126 occurred when the Dr. Strange series was canceled and the storyline was completed in another series. Dr. Strange teams with Sub-Mariner then the Hulk to protect the Earth from invasion by Lovecraftian interplanar beings known as the Undying Ones and their leader, barbara Norriss, later the host of the Valkyrie, first appears in this story. The Defenders first appeared as a feature in Marvel Feature #1, due to the popularity of their tryout in Marvel Feature, Marvel soon began publishing The Defenders. Valkyrie was introduced to the team in issue #4, writer Steve Englehart has stated that he added the Valkyrie to the Defenders to provide some texture to the group. Englehart wrote The Avengers–Defenders War crossover in The Avengers #116–118 and The Defenders #9–11, len Wein briefly wrote the series and introduced such characters as Alpha the Ultimate Mutant and the Wrecking Crew. He later became the editor for several issues, Steve Gerber first worked on the characters in Giant-Size Defenders #3 and became the writer of the main title with issue #20 the following month. He wrote the series until issue #41, part of Gerbers oeuvre was reviving forgotten characters, he brought back three pre-Marvel characters, the Headmen, as well as the Guardians of the Galaxy. The Defenders met Gerbers Howard the Duck in Marvel Treasury Edition #12, in 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Gerber and Sal Buscemas run on The Defenders first on its list of the Top 10 1970s Marvels. David Anthony Krafts run as writer included The Scorpio Saga and the Xenogenesis, Kraft later recalled that reactions to the storys off-beat humor were polarized, readers were either wildly enthusiastic or absolutely and very utterly appalled. Kraft and artist Ed Hannigan explained some of the Valykries backstory in The Defenders #66–68, steven Grant wrote a conclusion to Steve Gerbers Omega the Unknown series in two issues of The Defenders, at the end of which most of the original series characters were killed

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Excalibur (comics)
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Excalibur is a fictional superhero group appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are depicted as an offshoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom, conceived by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer Alan Davis, the original Excalibur first appeared in Excalibur Special Edition, also known as Excalibur, The Sword is Drawn. The first Excalibur consisted of the British superhero Captain Britain, his lover Meggan, an eponymous Excalibur series featuring the team lasted from 1988 until 1998. Originally, the series involved cross-dimensional travel that incorporated as elements of Captain Britain’s mythos as it did the X-Men’s. Captain Britain reformed Excalibur to defend London in a series entitled New Excalibur, although written by Claremont with the same title, it had no connection to the superhero team. Excaliburs original creative team, writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer Alan Davis, the X-Men are a group of mutants—evolved human beings born with extraordinary powers—who use their abilities to defend a society that hates and fears them. Claremont had authored their series since 1976, guiding them to tremendous success, Phoenix - A telekinetic and telepathic young woman from a dystopian future. She plays host to the Phoenix Force, a cosmic entity which once posed as her mother. Shadowcat - A teenage computer expert with the ability to phase through solid objects, lockheed - A small extraterrestrial dragon kept as Kittys pet. A Marvel UK property, co-created by Claremont in 1976, alcoholic Captain Britain is a protector of Great Britain, endowed with powers by the legendary wizard. Excalibur, which also featured shapeshifter Meggan, first gathered together in Excalibur Special Edition #1 and were featured in a monthly Excalibur series. With the help of a manic, dimension-hopping robot named Widget and he also added several new members, including the mystic Feron, the warrior Kylun, and the alien Cerise, and also introduced the size-shifter Micromax. In a jarring transition, Captain Britain was lost off-panel, Meggan was suddenly catatonic from losing Captain Britain, Phoenix was disposed of to bring in Britannic. Nightcrawlers former lover, the mystic Amanda Sefton, also joined the team, Ellis made Wisdom the romantic interest of the much younger Shadowcat. At the insistence of Marvel editors, Ellis also added Wolfsbane, a Scottish werewolf-like young woman from the New Mutants, and Colossus, sales fell and Marvel canceled the series, partially so Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Colossus could return to the X-Men. The series ended with issue #125, featuring the wedding of Meggan, the solicited cover to issue #1 featured a new costume for Captain Britain, different from the one he actually received in the comic, and the cover was unused. In 2004, Marvel Comics launched a new ongoing series titled Excalibur, other cast members included Callisto, another mutant leader and former member of the Morlocks, and newcomers such as Wicked, Freakshow, Shola Inkosi, and Karima Shapandar. Archangel and Husk also appeared in the series, the grouping never laid claim to the name Excalibur, despite the title of the series

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Acolytes (comics)
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The Acolytes is a team of fictional mutant supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Acolytes followed the principles of the mutant Magneto, particularly the mutant right of superiority over normal humans. Some members of the Acolytes even worshipped him with a fervor and regarded him as the “mutant messiah. ”The Acolytes first appeared in X-Men vol.2 #1 and were created by Chris Claremont. The Acolytes were first a group of mutants on the run from S. H. I. E. L. D. Soldiers, originally led by Fabian Cortez, Magneto housed them on his space station, Asteroid M, giving the mutants refuge. Due to events arranged and manipulated by Fabian Cortez, the first group of Acolytes perished, Cortez used their deaths and the assumed death of Magneto as martyrdom to further his cause against normal humanity. The X-Men interfered with their attack and the Acolytes retreated, afterwards, the Acolytes kidnapped Moira MacTaggert. Fabian Cortez’s reason was to ascertain whether Magneto was alive, Moira was rescued by the X-Men. The Acolytes’ next attack was on a hospital, four members of the Acolytes were involved in killing several dying, hospitalized humans. Next, the team attempted an attack on a military base. They were opposed by X-Factor and their mercenary ally Random, the attack on the base actually proved beneficial because it was a way for Fabian to attempt to coerce Quicksilver, the son of Magneto, to join his cause. Meanwhile, Magneto returned to hatch his plan of revenge, Magneto recruited Exodus, in order to reclaim the Acolytes in his name. After the events of Fatal Attractions and the Age of Apocalypse and they brought it aboard and awoke Holocaust. Holocaust went on a rampage, killing members of the Acolytes, Javitz, Rusty Collins. In his duel with Exodus, the Acolytes’ new space station, Avalon, was destroyed, Jean Grey and Cyclops were teleported there by Voght to help the remaining Acolytes. Skids was rescued by Jean Grey, while former X-Man Colossus put a comatose Magneto into a lifepod and sent him to Earth. Meanwhile, Cyclops crash-landed with some of the hardcore Acolytes and ended up in the Australian Outback, it was his ingenuity and knowledge, some time passed before the Acolytes reformed. When Magneto was granted control of Genosha, he reconstituted the Acolytes, with new and old and he used the Acolytes as a force to help him gain control over the war-torn island

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Phoenix Force (comics)
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The Phoenix Force is a fictional entity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The entity has bonded with other characters, and often used the alias Phoenix, the Phoenix Force is famous for its central role in The Dark Phoenix Saga storyline, and is frequently linked to Jean Grey. In 2009, Jean Grey as the Dark Phoenix was ranked as IGNs 9th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, wizard list of Top 100 villains ranked the Dark Phoenix as 38th. The Phoenix first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #101 in the guise of Jean Grey, the Phoenix Force is an immortal and mutable manifestation of the prime universal force of life and passion. Born of the void between states of being, the Phoenix Force is a child of the universe. It is the nexus of all psionic energy which does, has, and ever will exist in all realities of the multiverse, the Guardian of Creation, and of the dangerously powerful MKraan Crystal. The Phoenix Force is described as being the embodiment of the passion of Creation – the spark that gave life to the Universe. During its time as a sentient and nameless entity, it traveled the cosmos just like other cosmic beings and he asked the Phoenix to help him by lending its energy to project a stone pillar across the multiverse. The pillar became the base for the British super-team Excalibur. Afterwards, Feron was attacked by Necrom in an attempt to steal the power of the Phoenix. Feron, strengthened by the Phoenix Force, was able to fight back, the Phoenix Force returned to Earth when it felt the mind of a human transcend the physical realm, a mind that resonated with the Phoenix Forces energy. A young Jean Grey had telepathically linked her mind to her friend, Annie Richardson. In doing so, Jeans mind was being dragged along to the side with Annie. Phoenix lent its energy to break the connection, and kept watch on young Jean. Years later when Jean was dying on a shuttle, her mind called out for help. The Phoenix remained with the X-Men for only a short time and she prevented the complete destruction of the universe by repairing the damaged energy matrix at the core of the MKraan Crystal. During a skirmish with the X-Mens first and most deadly foe, Magneto, Phoenix and Beast were separated from the other X-Men, Phoenix went on a European vacation to gather herself in this new, lonely world. In Greece, Phoenix met a young and handsome man named Nikos, who is revealed to be Mastermind

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X-Force
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X-Force is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team first appeared in New Mutants #100, the group was originally a revamped version of the 1980s team, the New Mutants. X-Forces first leader was the mutant Cable, an offshoot of the X-Men, X-Force takes a more militant and aggressive approach towards its enemies compared to the X-Men. X-Force was canceled with #129 and relaunched as X-Statix, which coincided with a rebranding of the team in the story. After X-Statix was canceled with #26, Marvel reunited the original X-Force team for a six-issue 2004 limited series plotted, in 2007–2008, during the Messiah Complex crossover, a new version of the X-Force team was formed with Wolverine leading a more militaristic black-ops branch of the X-Men. This squad would form the basis for a new X-Force series starting February 2008 by writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, the series came to a conclusion in September 2010 as part of the Second Coming storyline that ran through various X-titles. A concurrent X-Force book written by Dennis Hopeless, Cable and X-Force, was released at the same time, the two series ended in 2014 after a crossover between the two titled Vendetta. A new X-Force, was launched featuring a black-ops squad composed of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow, written by X-Men, X-Force was created by illustrator Rob Liefeld after he started penciling The New Mutants comic book in 1989 with #86. The popularity of Liefeld’s art led to him taking over the duties on the book. With help from writer Fabian Nicieza, who provided the dialogue for Liefeld’s plots, Liefeld transformed the New Mutants into X-Force in New Mutants #100, Liefeld and Nicieza launched X-Force in August 1991. Rob Liefeld obtained the name for the series from an unknown artist at a convention a few prior to its release. The original line-up of the team included Boom Boom, Cable, Cannonball, Domino, Feral, Shatterstar, in later issues, X-Forces roster would include Siryn, Rictor and Sunspot. The main opponents of X-Force during its first year were the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Stryfe, early issues also featured the wise-cracking mercenary Deadpool, the immortal Externals, and a new version of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Propelled by Liefelds art, X-Force became one of Marvel’s bestselling comic books immediately after its debut, the series rivaled The Amazing Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men in popularity, particularly with the adolescent demographic. Toy Biz responded to X-Forces popularity by introducing an X-Force action figure line alongside its X-Men action figure line, along with six other popular Marvel artists, Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 to form Image Comics. X-Force continued with Nicieza writing and Greg Capullo illustrating, Nicieza, who also wrote X-Men, vol. 2, helped plot the X-Cutioners Song storyline that overlapped into most X-Men related books in the fall of 1992, in that story, Stryfe frames Cable for an assassination attempt on the X-Men’s founder Professor X, leading to a clash between the X-Men and X-Force. The crossover boosted Cables popularity, despite the apparent death in X-Force #18

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Juggernaut (comics)
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Juggernaut is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, who first appeared in X-Men #12, was created by writer Stan Lee and he is the stepbrother of Professor X. In 2008, Juggernaut was ranked 188th on Wizards list of Top 200 Comic Book Characters, in 2009, Juggernaut was ranked 19th on IGNs list of Top 100 Comic Book Villains. The character debuted as an antagonist of the mutant superhero team in X-Men #12–13. In the first of these issues, he rampaged unseen throughout the X-Mens headquarters while the leader, Professor X. After the canceled X-Men returned in the mid-1970s, the Juggernaut returned to fight a new iteration of the team in X-Men #101–103, storylines in Spider-Woman #37–38 and The Amazing Spider-Man #229–230 explored the Juggernauts relationship with his ally Black Tom Cassidy. The X-Men and Spider-Man proved to be regular foes for the character, who appeared in Uncanny X-Men #183, Marvel Team-up #150, and Uncanny X-Men #194. The Juggernaut guest-starred in Secret Wars II #7, battled a new generation of mutants in X-Men #217–218, appeared in a story in Marvel Saga #21. The Juggernaut also participated in the Acts of Vengeance storyline in Thor #411–412, other appearances included an encounter with his creator, Cyttorak, in X-Men Unlimited #12 and starring in the one-shot issue Juggernaut #1. In 1994, Marvel purchased Malibu Comics and began a series of crossovers that saw Marvel characters entering the Malibu Ultraverse, in 1995-1996, Juggernaut lead a group of Ultras, who were named The All New Exiles. The All New Exiles eventually met up with the X-Men in a special Malibu/Marvel collaboration, The All New Exiles vs X-Men, Issue #0, dated October 1995. The character appeared in Juggernaut, The Eighth Day #1 and Avengers Vol.3, Nos. 23–25 with similarly powered avatars and attempted a reformation in Uncanny X-Men # 410–413 and X-Men #162–164. The Juggernaut confronted his stepbrother, Charles Xavier—leader of the X-Men—in X-Men, Legacy #219 and he appeared as a regular character in Thunderbolts beginning with issue #144, and remained on the team until issue #158, during the Fear Itself limited series. Writer Mike Conroy stated, The characters who debuted during the years of Marvels mutant X-Men have been remarkably long-lived. Cain Marko is the son of Kurt Marko, who becomes Charles Xaviers stepfather when he marries Sharon Xavier after the death of her husband Brian, Kurt Marko favors Charles and abuses his own son, Cain. Cain resents Charles and bullies him frequently, Cain Marko and his step-brother Charles serve in the US Army and are stationed in Korea. Marko finds a temple dedicated to the entity Cyttorak. On entering, Marko finds and holds a huge ruby and reads the inscription on the stone aloud, henceforth, you who read these words, shall become

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Steel
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Steel is an alloy of iron and other elements, primarily carbon, that is widely used in construction and other applications because of its high tensile strength and low cost. Steels base metal is iron, which is able to take on two forms, body centered cubic and face centered cubic, depending on its temperature. It is the interaction of those allotropes with the elements, primarily carbon. In the body-centred cubic arrangement, there is an atom in the centre of each cube. Carbon, other elements, and inclusions within iron act as hardening agents that prevent the movement of dislocations that otherwise occur in the lattices of iron atoms. The carbon in steel alloys may contribute up to 2. 1% of its weight. Steels strength compared to pure iron is possible at the expense of irons ductility. With the invention of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th century and this was followed by Siemens-Martin process and then Gilchrist-Thomas process that refined the quality of steel. With their introductions, mild steel replaced wrought iron, further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking, largely replaced earlier methods by further lowering the cost of production and increasing the quality of the product. Today, steel is one of the most common materials in the world and it is a major component in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, automobiles, machines, appliances, and weapons. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades defined by assorted standards organizations, the noun steel originates from the Proto-Germanic adjective stakhlijan, which is related to stakhla. The carbon content of steel is between 0. 002% and 2. 1% by weight for plain iron–carbon alloys and these values vary depending on alloying elements such as manganese, chromium, nickel, iron, tungsten, carbon and so on. Basically, steel is an alloy that does not undergo eutectic reaction. In contrast, cast iron does undergo eutectic reaction, too little carbon content leaves iron quite soft, ductile, and weak. Carbon contents higher than those of steel make an alloy, commonly called pig iron, while iron alloyed with carbon is called carbon steel, alloy steel is steel to which other alloying elements have been intentionally added to modify the characteristics of steel. Common alloying elements include, manganese, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, boron, titanium, vanadium, tungsten, cobalt, and niobium. Additional elements are important in steel, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, and traces of oxygen, nitrogen, and copper. Alloys with a higher than 2. 1% carbon content, depending on other element content, cast iron is not malleable even when hot, but it can be formed by casting as it has a lower melting point than steel and good castability properties

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Superhero
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A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine. Fiction centered on characters, especially in American comic books since the 1930s, is known as superhero fiction. By most definitions, characters do not require actual supernatural or superhuman powers or phenomena to be deemed superheroes, some superheroes use their powers to counter daily crime while also combating threats against humanity from supervillains, who are their criminal counterparts. Often at least one of these supervillains will be the superheros archenemy, some long-running superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Spider-Man have a rogues gallery of many villains. The word superhero dates to at least 1917, antecedents of the archetype include such folkloric heroes as Robin Hood, who adventured in distinctive clothing. The 1903 play The Scarlet Pimpernel and its spinoffs popularized the idea of a masked avenger, during the 1940s there were many superheroes, and only a few of these were female. The Flash, Green Lantern and Blue Beetle debuted in this era, most of the other female costumed crime-fighters during this era lacked superpowers. The most iconic comic book superheroine, who debuted during the Golden Age, is Wonder Woman, inspired by the Amazons of Greek mythology, she was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, with help and inspiration from his wife Elizabeth and their mutual lover Olive Byrne. Wonder Womans first appearance was in All Star Comics #8, published by All-American Publications, in 1952, Osamu Tezukas manga Tetsuwan Atom was published. The series focused upon a robot boy built by a scientist to replace his deceased son, the 1950s saw the Silver Age of Comics. During this era DC introduced the likes of Batwoman in 1956, Supergirl, Miss Arrowette,1958 saw the debut of superhero Moonlight Mask on Japanese television. In 1963, Astro Boy was adapted into a highly influential anime television series, Phantom Agents in 1964 focused on ninjas working for the Japanese government and would be the foundation for Sentai-type series. Another important event was the debut of Mazinger Z by Go Nagai, Go Nagai also wrote the manga Cutey Honey in 1973, although the Magical Girl genre already existed, Nagais manga introduced Transformation sequences that would become a staple of Magical Girl media. The dark Skull Man manga would later get a television adaptation, the protagonist was redesigned resemble a grasshopper, becoming the renowned first masked hero of the Kamen Rider series. Kamen Rider is a motorcycle riding hero in an insect-like costume, both major publishers began introducing new superheroines with a more distinct feminist theme as part of their origin stories or character development. Examples include Big Barda, Power Girl, and the Huntress by DC comics, and from Marvel, the second Black Widow, Shanna the She-Devil, and The Cat. In 1975 Shotaro Ishinomoris Himitsu Sentai Gorenger debuted on what is now TV Asahi, it brought the concepts of multi-colored teams, in 1978, Toei adapted Spider-Man into a live-action series. In subsequent decades, popular characters like Dazzler, She-Hulk, Elektra, Catwoman, Witchblade, Spider-Girl, Batgirl, volume 4 of the X-Men comic book series featured an all-female team as part of the Marvel NOW. branding initiative in 2013

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American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime. The 1950s saw a decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a revival. Since the later 20th century, comic books have gained note as collectable items, Comic shops cater to fans, and particularly valuable issues have fetched in excess of a million dollars. Systems of grading comic books have emerged with plastic sleeves and cardboard backing available to maintain the condition of comic books, standard comics are 6.625 inches ×10.25 inches and about 32 pages long. While comics can be the work of a creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided between a number of specialists. There may be a writer and artist, or there may be separate artists for the characters. The process begins with the coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot and story. After the art production, letters are placed on the page, the creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in the U. S. helps to distribute the product to retailers. Another part of the involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans and the creator. Fan art and letters to the editor were printed in the back of the book until the early 21st century. Comic specialty stores did help encourage several waves of independently-produced comics, the development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U. S, the Yellow Kid in McFaddens Flats, in 1897. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which also includes text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches. The neologism comic book appears on the back cover, despite the publication of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward, the first monthly proto-comic book, Embee Distributing Companys Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922

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Russian language
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Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages, written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century and beyond. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and it is also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian is also the second most widespread language on the Internet after English, Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language, another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels. Russian is a Slavic language of the Indo-European family and it is a lineal descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus. From the point of view of the language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. In the 19th century, the language was often called Great Russian to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called White Russian and Ukrainian, however, the East Slavic forms have tended to be used exclusively in the various dialects that are experiencing a rapid decline. In some cases, both the East Slavic and the Church Slavonic forms are in use, with different meanings. For details, see Russian phonology and History of the Russian language and it is also regarded by the United States Intelligence Community as a hard target language, due to both its difficulty to master for English speakers and its critical role in American world policy. The standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language, mikhail Lomonosov first compiled a normalizing grammar book in 1755, in 1783 the Russian Academys first explanatory Russian dictionary appeared. By the mid-20th century, such dialects were forced out with the introduction of the education system that was established by the Soviet government. Despite the formalization of Standard Russian, some nonstandard dialectal features are observed in colloquial speech. Thus, the Russian language is the 6th largest in the world by number of speakers, after English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a choice for both Russian as a second language and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics, samuel P. Huntington wrote in the Clash of Civilizations, During the heyday of the Soviet Union, Russian was the lingua franca from Prague to Hanoi

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Giant-Size X-Men
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Giant-Size X-Men #1 was a special issue of the X-Men comic book series, published by Marvel Comics in 1975. It was written by Len Wein and illustrated by Dave Cockrum, though not a regular issue, it contained the first new X-Men story in five years. The issue serves as a link between the original X-Men and a new team, chronologically it is placed after X-Men #66 and before X-Men #94. The 68-page book was published with a May 1975 cover date, the X-Men title stopped producing new stories after #66 in March 1970. From December 1970 through April 1975, Marvel reprinted many of the older X-Men issues as #67–93, following the May publication of Giant-Size X-Men #1, Marvel began again publishing new issues of X-Men with #94 in August 1975. The comic also collects reprints from X-Men #43, #47 and #57 and these members are gathered from all over the world, and Professor X uses his telepathic powers to teach them all English so that they can communicate with each other. The team soon learns that Krakoa is not just an island, the issue ends by posing the question of the future of a 13-member X-Men team. The later storyline Deadly Genesis offers a ret-con of this story, Marvel published a second issue of Giant-Size X-Men later in 1975. This November issue had no new material, instead featuring reprints of stories from X-Men #57, #58, in 2005, Marvel published two new Giant Size X-Men issues to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original. Issue #3 in July contained a written by Joss Whedon. The issue also reprinted several older X-Men team-ups, the appearance in Fantastic Four #28, an Avengers guest appearance in X-Men #9. In November, Chris Claremont penned a story for issue #4 and it also reprinted material related to the death of Thunderbird from X-Men #94-95, Classic X-Men #3 and Uncanny X-Men #193

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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians

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Comic book
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art

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Daniel Cudmore
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Daniel Cudmore is a Canadian actor and stuntman. He is perhaps best known for his roles as the mutant Piotr Rasputin/Colossus in the X-Men film franchise, Cudmore was born and raised in Squamish, British Columbia, to English parents Sue Bailey, who works for the British Columbia Film Commission, and Richard Cudmore, a doctor. Cudmore is the middle of three boys, all over 66, Cudmore attended Gannon University and was a member of the football team. He is a forward for the Capilano Rugby Football Club in Vancouver. His older brother Jamie Cudmore is a member of the Canadian Rugby World Cup team and his younger brother, Luke, also plays for Capilano RFC. Cudmores first major role came in 2003 when he appeared as Piotr Rasputin in the installment of the X-Men film franchise. He auditioned for the role in Superman Returns, but lost the role to Brandon Routh. He portrayed the Volturi Felix in The Twilight Saga, New Moon, The Twilight Saga, Eclipse, on July 11,2012 it was confirmed that Cudmore will portray Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 in the live-action Halo 4, Forward Unto Dawn web series. Cudmore reprised the role of Colossus in X-Men, Days of Future Past, daniel Cudmore at the Internet Movie Database

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X2 (film)
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X2 is a 2003 American superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to 2000s X-Men and the installment in the X-Men film series. The plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, pits the X-Men and their enemies, the Brotherhood, against the genocidal Colonel William Stryker. He leads an assault on Professor Xaviers school to build his own version of Xaviers mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns, the films premise was influenced by the Marvel Comics storylines Return to Weapon X and God Loves, Man Kills. Filming began in June 2002 and ended that November, most of the filming took place at Vancouver Film Studios, the largest North American production facility outside of Los Angeles. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film, X2 was released in the United States on May 2,2003. It received positive reviews critics, who mostly praised the storyline, action sequences and acting of the film. With its critical success, it grossed over approximately $407 million, at the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President of the United States but fails and escapes. Meanwhile, Wolverine explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past and he returns to Professor Xaviers school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Xavier and Cyclops go to question the imprisoned Magneto about the attack, while X-Men Storm, meanwhile, military scientist Colonel William Stryker approaches the president and receives approval to investigate Xaviers mansion for their ties to mutants. Strykers forces invade the school and abduct most of the students, with only Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro escaping, during the attack Wolverine confronts Stryker, who knows him by name. The shape-shifting Mystique gains information about Magnetos prison and helps him escape while also discovering schematics for a second Cerebro, Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro visit Icemans parents in Boston and meet up with Storm, Jean, and Nightcrawler. The X-Jet is attacked by fighter jets en route back to the mansion and is shot down, Magneto explains to the group that Stryker has built the second Cerebro to use it, and Xavier, to telepathically kill every mutant on the planet. Strykers son, Jason, is a mutant with mind-controlling powers, Stryker had also previously used Jasons powers to orchestrate Nightcrawlers attack as a pretense to gain approval to invade Xaviers mansion. Magneto also tells Wolverine that Stryker was the man who grafted his adamantium skeleton onto his bones, Jean reads Nightcrawlers mind and determines that Strykers base is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake. The mutants infiltrate Strykers base and Magneto and Mystique go to disable Cerebro before the brainwashed Xavier can activate it, Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the captured students, and Jean fights a mind-controlled Cyclops, their battle frees Cyclops but damages the dam, which begins to rupture

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X-Men: The Last Stand
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X-Men, The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team introduced in Marvel Comics. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the sequel to 2003s X2 and the third installment in the X-Men film series. Bryan Singer, who had directed the two films, X-Men and X2, decided to leave to work on Superman Returns. Matthew Vaughn, who was hired as the new director, left due to personal and professional issues. Filming took place from August 2005 to January 2006 with a budget of $210 million and it had extensive visual effects created by 11 different companies. X-Men, The Last Stand was released on May 26,2006, critical reception was mixed, with the acting and the action scenes receiving positive notice, and criticism directed at the screenplay, and overuse of characters and style. Twenty years in the past, Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young Jean Grey at her parents house to invite her to join their school, the X-Mansion. Ten years later, the industrialist father of Warren Worthington III discovers his son is a mutant as Warren tries to cut off his wings. In the present, Worthington Labs announces it has developed an inoculation to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities, the cure is created from the genome of a young mutant named Jimmy, who lives at the Worthington facility on Alcatraz Island. While some mutants are interested in the cure, including the X-Mens Rogue, Lehnsherr re-establishes his Brotherhood of Mutants with those who oppose the cure, warning his followers that the cure will be forcefully used to exterminate the mutant race. With help from Pyro, Lehnsherr recruits Callisto, and several other mutants and they attack the mobile prison holding Mystique to free her, also freeing Juggernaut and Multiple Man. Mystique saves Lehnsherr by taking a shot of the mutant cure aimed at him, hateful of humans, Lehnsherr abandons Mystique, much to her shock. Meanwhile, Scott Summers, still distraught over the loss of his fiancée, Jean Grey, Jean appears to Summers but, as the two kiss, Jean kills him. Sensing trouble, Xavier sends Logan and Storm to investigate, when they arrive, they find only telekinetically floating rocks, Summers glasses, and an unconscious Jean. Logan is disgusted to learn of this psychic tampering with Jeans mind but, once she awakens, the Phoenix emerges, knocks out Logan, and escapes to her childhood home. Lehnsherr learns of Jeans resurrection through Callisto, and the X-Men arrive at the Grey home at the time as the Brotherhood. Lehnsherr and Xavier go in alone, and both vie for Jeans loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces and she destroys the house and disintegrates Xavier before leaving with Lehnsherr. During the fight, Kitty Pryde saves Jimmy from Juggernaut, who had sent to kill him

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X-Men: Days of Future Past
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X-Men, Days of Future Past is a 2014 American superhero film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the installment of the X-Men film series. Simon Kinberg wrote the screenplay from a story conceived by Jane Goldman, himself, Vaughn had directed First Class and was set to return in Days of Future Past before leaving for Kingsman, The Secret Service. Thus Singer, who had directed the first two X-Men films, made his return as a director, and brought along most of the crew from those productions, twelve companies handled the visual effects. X-Men, Days of Future Past premiered in New York City on May 10,2014 and it became the best-reviewed film in the X-Men film series released thus far, being praised for its story, visual effects, action scenes, acting and thematic elements. During its theatrical run, the film earned over $747 million worldwide, making it the 6th highest grossing film of 2014, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects, making it the first X-Men film to be nominated for an Oscar. A sequel, X-Men, Apocalypse, was released in May 2016, in the future, robots known as Sentinels are exterminating mutants and their human allies. The Sentinels are near invincible as they possess Mystiques powers of transformation and this technology was made possible following research performed on Mystique when she was captured during the assassination of Dr. Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels. A band of mutants, including Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Iceman, Bishop, Warpath, Blink and Sunspot, convene with Wolverine, Storm, Professor Charles Xavier, and Magneto in a hideout in remote China. Pryde sends Wolverines consciousness back fifty years to 1973 to prevent Mystique from assassinating Trask, at the X-Mansion in 1973, the future/present Wolverine encounters Xavier and Hank McCoy. Xavier, a man, has been overusing a serum that allows him to walk. Wolverine explains his mission and persuades Xavier to help free Magneto from a cell beneath The Pentagon. They rescue Magneto with the help of Peter Maximoff, a mutant with super speed, Trask unsuccessfully tries to sway Congress to gain support for his Sentinel program. Meanwhile, in Saigon, Mystique prevents William Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant G. I. s for Trasks research. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine fly to Paris to intercept Mystique, however her presence is discovered as Trask endeavors to demonstrate the Prototype Sentinel technology to military leaders. The group arrives as Mystique is about to kill Trask, Magneto tries to kill Mystique to ensure her DNA cannot be used for the Sentinels, but she escapes. The fight spills onto the street in view of the public, allowing Magneto, Trask is saved, but the world is horrified by the existence of mutants. President Richard Nixon approves Trasks Sentinel program and arranges an unveiling ceremony, Trasks scientists recover Mystiques blood from the street

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Computer-generated imagery
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The term CGI animation refers to dynamic CGI rendered as a movie. The term virtual world refers to agent-based, interactive environments, Computer graphics software is used to make computer-generated imagery for films, etc. Availability of CGI software and increased computer speeds have allowed artists and small companies to produce professional-grade films, games. This has brought about an Internet subculture with its own set of global celebrities, clichés, the evolution of CGI led to the emergence of virtual cinematography in the 1990s where runs of the simulated camera are not constrained by the laws of physics. Not only do animated images form part of computer-generated imagery, natural looking landscapes are generated via computer algorithms. A simple way to generate fractal surfaces is to use an extension of the triangular mesh method, relying on the construction of special case of a de Rham curve. The creation of a Brownian surface may be achieved not only by adding noise as new nodes are created, thus a topographical map with varying levels of height can be created using relatively straightforward fractal algorithms. Some typical, easy-to-program fractals used in CGI are the plasma fractal, modern architects use services from computer graphic firms to create 3-dimensional models for both customers and builders. These computer generated models can be accurate than traditional drawings. Architectural animation can also be used to see the relationship a building will have in relation to the environment. The rendering of architectural spaces without the use of paper and pencil tools is now an accepted practice with a number of computer-assisted architectural design systems. Architectural modeling tools allow an architect to visualize a space and perform walk-throughs in an interactive manner, Architectural modeling tools have now become increasingly internet-based. However, the quality of internet-based systems still lags behind those of sophisticated in-house modeling systems, in some applications, computer-generated images are used to reverse engineer historical buildings. Computer generated models used in animation are not always anatomically correct. However, organizations such as the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute have developed anatomically correct computer-based models, Computer generated anatomical models can be used both for instructional and operational purposes. To date, a body of artist produced medical images continue to be used by medical students, such as images by Frank H. Netter. However, a number of anatomical models are becoming available. A single patient X-ray is not a computer generated image, even if digitized, however, in applications which involve CT scans a three-dimensional model is automatically produced from a large number of single slice x-rays, producing computer generated image

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Deadpool (film)
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Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the installment in the X-Men film series, and stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character, as well as Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein. Miller, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, in the film, antihero Deadpool hunts the man who nearly destroyed his life while also trying to reunite with his lost love. Development began in February 2004 with New Line Cinema, but moved in March 2005 to 20th Century Fox who bought the film rights, enthusiastic acclaim for leaked CGI test footage by Miller in July 2014 led to Fox greenlighting the film in September. Additional casting began in early 2015, and principal photography commenced in Vancouver from March to May, Deadpool premiered in Paris on February 8,2016, and was released on February 12 in the United States in IMAX, DLP, D-Box, and premium large format. Critics praised Reynolds performance as well as the style, faithful depiction of the titular character, and action sequences. It also won two Critics Choice Movie Awards for Best Comedy and Best Actor in a Comedy, shortly after the films success, Fox ordered development of a sequel, which is scheduled for a release sometime in 2018. This film is nonlinear, jumping between present and past, the plot is in chronological order. Wade Wilson, a special forces operative working as a criminal enforcer, meets a prostitute, Vanessa. The two develop a relationship, and a year later Wilson proposes marriage and he is then diagnosed with liver, lung, prostate, and brain cancer. Despite Vanessas love, Wilson dislikes the thought of her watching him waste away, a recruiter, dubbed Agent Smith from a covert organization approaches Wilson and promises him abilities that will cure his cancer. He is taken to a laboratory where he meets Ajax and Angel Dust. Ajax injects a serum into Wilson and subjects him to daily torture to activate it. Wilson then finds out Ajaxs real name is Francis and mocks him, annoyed, Ajax asphyxiates him in an oxygen chamber, causing him to develop an accelerated healing factor that cures him but leaves him disfigured with burn like scars over his entire body. Ajax reveals to Wilson that he does not actually intend to make him a superhero, Wilson finds a way to escape his confines and destroy the lab. He fights Ajax, but relents when Ajax says that he can repair his appearance, Ajax then impales him with rebar and leaves him for dead in the burning building. Wilson survives and attempts to return to Vanessa, but is afraid of her reaction to his disfigurement after people on the appear to be scared by his appearance. After consulting his best friend Weasel, Wilson begins the task of tracking down Ajax to get the cure and he becomes a masked vigilante, adopts the alter ego Deadpool, and resides with an elderly blind woman, Al

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Wizard (magazine)
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Wizard or Wizard, The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by Wizard Entertainment from July 1991 to January 2011. It included a guide, as well as comic book, movie, anime, and collector news, interviews. With issue #7, the magazine switched to paper and color printing. Wizard strongly supported new publishers Valiant Comics and Image Comics, heavily promoting their new releases, with its high-end production values and embodiment of the comic speculator boom, Wizard was an instant hit, with a monthly circulation of more than 100,000 copies. In 2006, the magazine was revamped with a look and more pages, switching from the perfect bound or staple free look. After issue 200, Wizard made several changes to the magazine, shifting focus from reviews and humor to information about upcoming comics, the 3-page Magic Words section, which consisted of reader questions, was dropped and replaced by Fan Mail, a half-page section allowing 3 short letters. In November 2006, Wizard editor-in-chief and co-founder Pat McCallum was fired, Wizard declined to say why he was removed. On February 21,2007, Scott Gramling was announced as the new editor-in-chief, soon after, longtime Wizard Editor Brian Cunningham was removed in August 2008. The final editor was former staff writer and managing editor Mike Cotton, on February 27,2009, Wizard laid off ten percent of its work force, including its three staff writers, in order to make room for freelance writers. Wizard was relaunched with issue #228, which featured Mark Millar as a guest editor, the magazine went back to its strictly comic book roots. The issue featured a Green Hornet film cover and round table discussion with creators in the comic book film industry, despite all these changes, however, the magazine was losing subscribers at an unsustainable rate, by December 2010 its circulation was just 17,000 copies. This was confirmed later that day by Wizard, who revealed that its sister magazine. According to the representatives, Wizard would be relaunched in February 2011 as an online magazine called Wizard World. The first issue of Wizard World was made online and through major digital distribution channels on March 2,2011. The magazine went through an ever-changing line-up of regular and semi-regular features, including Book Shelf — Brief descriptions of the trade paperback. Top 10 Writers and Artists — Lists charting the most popular creators of the month in each category, retired features include Casting Call — A feature proposing the dream cast for potential film adaptations of various comic books. Last Man Standing — A dream faceoff between two different characters or teams, always of different companies and/or universes, the feature would detail a brief showdown between the two, including the victor and would be accompanied by an exclusive illustration depicting the battle. In addition, both Wizard and ToyFare often featured mail-away offers for exclusive merchandise, Wizard began a practice of producing specially offered Wizard #1/2 issues

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IGN
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The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29,1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, the company is located in San Franciscos SOMA district in California, United States. Originally a network of websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary. com, PSXPower, Saturnworld, Next-Generation. com and Ultra Game Players Online. Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating a network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation. com, Sega-Saturn. com, Game Sages. In 1998, the network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system channels under the IGN brand, the homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation, dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put on hold when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand. In February 1999, Imagine Media incorporated a spin-off that included IGN and its channels as Affiliation Networks. In September, the newly spun-out standalone internet media company, changed its name to Snowball. com, at the same time, small entertainment website The Den merged into IGN and added non-gaming content to the growing network. Snowball held an IPO in 2000, but shed most of its properties during the dot-com bubble. In June 2005, IGN reported having 24,000,000 unique visitors per month, with 4.8 million registered users through all departments of the site, IGN is ranked among the top 200 most-visited websites according to Alexa. In September 2005, IGN was acquired by Rupert Murdochs multi-media business empire, News Corporation, IGN celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 12,2008. IGN was headquartered in the Marina Point Parkway office park in Brisbane, California, on May 25,2011, IGN sold its Direct2Drive division to Gamefly for an undisclosed amount. In 2011, IGN Entertainment acquired its rival UGO Entertainment from Hearst Corporation, ultimately, News Corp. planned to spin off IGN Entertainment as a publicly traded company, continuing a string of divestitures for digital properties it had previously acquired. Financial details regarding the purchase were not revealed, prior to its acquisition by UGO, 1UP. com had previously been owned by Ziff Davis. Soon after the acquisition, IGN announced that it would be laying off staff and closing GameSpy, 1UP. com, the role-playing video game interest website Vault Network was acquired by IGN in 1999. GameStats, a review website, was founded by IGN in 2004. GameStats includes a GPM rating system incorporates an average press score and average gamer score

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ComicsAlliance
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ComicsAlliance was a website dedicated to covering the comic book industry as well as comic-related media, and is owned by Townsquare Media. The site has been nominated for awards including a 2015 Eisner Award win in the category Best Comics Periodical/Journalism. ComicsAlliance was established in 2007 as part of a network of sites owned by AOL. The site featured writing from critics including David Brothers, Andy Khouri, Caleb Goellner, laura Hudson became the editor-in-chief in 2009. In 2012 Hudson left the site, with former Vertigo Comics editor Joe Hughes later announced as the new editor-in-chief, on April 26,2013, ComicsAlliance and the AOL Music properties were abruptly shut down. On June 2,2013, AOL sold ComicsAlliance and several of the AOL Music blogs to Townsquare Media, with editors Joe Hughes, Andy Khouri, in 2015 the site was the recipient of an Eisner Award in the category Best Comics Periodical/Journalism. As of April 2017, ComicsAlliance has been placed on hiatus by Townsquare Media. The longest-running column on the site is Ask Chris, written by Chris Sims, in 2011, Sims was featured on The Daily Show as part of a feature on the Batman comics series, credited as a ‘Batmanologist’. Additional features of note for the site have included Kate or Die, a comic from cartoonist Kate Leth, as well as Best Art Ever. The podcasts War Rocket Ajax and The Arkham Sessions have both been serialised on the site

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Roy Thomas
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Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. Thomas was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011, Thomas was born in Jackson, Missouri, United States. As a child, he was a comic book fan. The first of these was All-Giant Comics, which he recalls as having featured such characters as Elephant Giant and he graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1961 with a BS in Education, having majored in history and social science. Thomas, then a high school English teacher, took over as editor in 1964 when Bails moved on to other pursuits. Letters from him appeared regularly in the pages of both DC and Marvel Comics, including The Flash #116, Fantastic Four #5, Fantastic Four #15. In 1965, Thomas moved to New York City to take a job at DC Comics as assistant to Mort Weisinger, Thomas had already written a Jimmy Olsen script a few months before, while still living and teaching in the St. Louis area, he said in 2005. I worked at DC for eight days in late June and very early July of 1965 before accepting a job at Marvel Comics, the Marvel Bullpen Bulletins in Fantastic Four #61 describes Thomas admitting that he gave up a scholarship to George Washington University just to write for Marvel. Familiar with editor and chief writer Stan Lees Marvel work, and feeling them the most vital comics around, Thomas just sat down one night at the hotel and – I wrote him a letter. Not applying for a job or anything so mundane as that – I just said that I admired his work, I figured he just might remember me from Alter Ego. Lee did, and phoned Thomas to offer him a Marvel writing test, the writers test, Thomas said in 1998, was four Jack Kirby pages from Fantastic Four Annual #2. Had Sol or someone take out the dialogue, other people like Denny ONeil and Gary Friedrich took it. But soon afterwards we stopped using it, the day after taking the test, Thomas was at DC, proofreading a Supergirl story, when Steinberg called asking Thomas to meet with Lee during lunch, where Thomas agreed to work for Marvel. His employment was announced in the Bullpen Bulletins section of Fantastic Four #47 under the heading How About That, Thomas later described his early days at Marvel, I was hired after taking writers test, and my first official job title at Marvel was staff writer. I wasnt hired as an editor or assistant editor, I was supposed to come in 40 hours a week and write scripts on staff. I sat at this corrugated metal desk with a typewriter in an office with production manager Sol Brodsky. Everybody who came up to Marvel wound up there, and the phone was constantly ringing, with conversations going on all around me. Almost at once, even though Stan proofed all the stories, he and Sol started having me check the corrections before they went out

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Meggan
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Meggan Puceanu is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as a supporting character in stories featuring Captain Britain, and the X-Men. Her first appearance in an American Marvel publication was in New Mutants Annual #2 and she eventually chose the codename Gloriana, a name of victory coined by the demons of Hell. Meggan first appears in Marvel UKs Mighty World of Marvel #7 and her origin story is told in Captain Britain #8, this story was later reprinted in the Captain Britain trade paperback in the U. S. Meggans first American appearance is in New Mutants Annual #2. Her original family name is recorded for the first time in 2008 in Captain Britain and MI13 #7, born in a blizzard to a British Romanichal family near Fenborough Station in England, Meggan adapted to the cold by growing fur, to the horror of her family. Unfortunately, as a metamorph, the more they saw her as a monster, the more monstrous she became, growing webbing upon her hands and feet, antennae on her head, claws. The belief that she was sort of monster was also affected by the fact that Meggans birth took place near an ancient British fortress that was rumoured to be the site of dark magics. Meggans family hid her away in their camper, where she watched television incessantly, totally immersing herself in the fantasy of the various British TV shows of the time, eventually, she met Captain Britain and fought him, but then befriended him. She fell in love him, joining him as an adventurer. With him, she first encountered Gatecrashers Technet, Captain Britain fell in love right back, and the two began a romantic relationship. The two had a long and stormy courtship, marred by events both cosmic and mundane, Meggan then fought Gatecrashers Technet alongside Captain Britain, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, and Shadowcat, and with them became a founding member of Excalibur. A few months after she and Brian helped found Excalibur, Meggan resumed the search for her parents, the story proved to be about a being belonging to a mystical race called the Neuri, who showed Meggan her true appearance. Meggan became attracted to Nightcrawler before long, Excalibur clashed with Arcade and the Crazy Gang, and Meggan temporarily switched bodies with the Crazy Gangs Knave. Brian could not deal with Nightcrawlers attraction toward Meggan, and Meggan later developed a crush on Piotr Peter Rasputin, Meggan and Brian are wed, with the celebration attended by all their friends in the 125th issue of Excalibur. Due to her odd upbringing, for years, Meggan was naive in many of the aspects of culture, obsessed with television. For example, she did not know that Doctor Doom was such a threat, though she soon learned when he attacked the entire team. Her Excalibur teammates, over the years, brought her up to speed with Earthly life, douglock took a personal effort in being her teacher after he joined the team. In the latter part of the Excalibur series, Meggan became much more self-confident, taking more of a role, changing her costume. She used the minimum of force needed, but did not hesitate to scare her adversaries, when Roma stepped down and let Captain Britain become the Omniversal Guardian of the Otherworld, Meggan came to rule beside him as his queen

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Arcade (Marvel Comics)
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Arcade is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978s Marvel Team-Up #65, created by writer Chris Claremont, the character is a combination of evil genius and hitman who carries out his assassinations via various elaborate traps, often referred to as his Murderworld. He was the villain and driving force behind the 2012-2014 comic book Avengers Arena. Arcades first intended victims were Spider-Man and Captain Britain but since Arcades Murderworld games always leaves the outcome up to chance the duo defeated Arcade, over the years Arcade has targeted a multitude of X-Men and members of X-Factor, X-Force and Excalibur. For a while he used the Crazy Gang as his henchmen with limited success. In Avenger Arena Arcade and his associates manage to kidnap 16 super powered teens and force them to each other. During the storyline several of the teens were killed but in the end Arcade seemingly dies as S. H. I. E. L. D, Wolverine, Hank Pym and Captain Britain free the surviving teens. In the follow up series Avengers Undercover it was revealed that Arcade survived, Arcade first appeared in Marvel Team-Up, vol. A combination of genius and hitman, Arcade affects a manner of dress. Arcades back-story, up to and including his name, remains largely unknown even to this day. According to the man himself, he was born into a wealthy family and lived for much of his early life in, depending on the telling. At the age of eighteen or twenty-one, his allowance was cut off by his father. In retaliation, Arcade murders his father, thus inheriting all of the mans vast estate, given his propensity for deception, this origin story can hardly be taken at face value. Arcade became an assassin, traveling across the world, killing people in rather mundane fashions. Discovering an aptitude for technology, Arcade designed and built his first Murderworld, from this base, and with the help of two mysterious assistants named Miss Locke and Mr. Chambers, he reemerged as the worlds most expensive hitman. However, one of his gimmicks is that he deliberately leaves each target a small chance of survival. In one instance, when the girlfriend of one of his captives begged him If youre going to kill them, Arcade laughs and replied, Decencys dull. Besides, miss, your way, theyre dead and thats that and my way, theyve got a chance

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Kitty Pryde
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Katherine Anne Kitty Pryde is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 and was co-created by writer-artist John Byrne, a mutant, Pryde possesses a phasing ability that allows her, as well as objects or people she is in contact with, to become intangible. This power also disrupts any electrical field she passes through, the youngest person to join the X-Men, Kitty received her first codename, Sprite, from Storm. Professor X also suggested the codename Ariel, which Kitty adopted for a time prior to becoming Shadowcat. After joining the Guardians of the Galaxy, she replaced her fiancé, during her early years, she was portrayed as a kid sister to many older members of the X-Men, filling the role of literary foil to the more established characters. In the years since her introduction, she has aged and matured, in the X-Men film series, Kitty was portrayed by young actresses in cameos, Sumela Kay in X-Men and Katie Stuart in X2. Ellen Page portrayed the character in X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men and she is ranked #47 in IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. Kitty Pryde was introduced into the X-Men title as the result of an editorial dictate that the book was supposed to depict a school for mutants. Uncanny X-Men artist John Byrne named Kitty Pryde after a classmate he met in art school, Alberta College of Art and he had told Pryde he liked her name and asked for permission to use it, promising to name his first original comics character after her. Byrne drew the character to resemble an adolescent Sigourney Weaver. The fictional Kitty Pryde first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129, by writer Chris Claremont and artist Byrne, Claremont said several elements of the characters personality were derived from those of X-Men editor Louise Simonsons daughter, Julie. Claremont and Byrne made the new character a full-fledged X-Man in issue #139, the six-issue miniseries Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, written by Claremont, is a coming-of-age storyline in which she matures from a girl to a young woman, adopting the new name Shadowcat. In the late 80s, she joined the British-based super team, Excalibur, in the early 2000s, she disappeared from the spotlight after semi-retiring from superhero work. She was featured in the 2002 mini-series Mekanix and came back to the main X-Men books in 2004 under the pen of Joss Whedon in Astonishing X-Men and she remained a part of the X-Men books until 2008 when she left again for roughly 2 years. After coming back, she was featured in Jason Aarons Wolverine, in early 2015, she joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. After the Secret Wars event, she adopted her new alias, shadowcats popularity had a profound effect on the real-life Kitty Pryde, the latter became so overwhelmed by attention from Shadowcat fans, she abbreviated her name to K. D. Pryde to avoid association with her fictional counterpart, katherine Anne Kitty Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois, to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. Of Jewish descent, her grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, was held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II

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Nightcrawler (comics)
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Nightcrawler is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he debuted in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1, Nightcrawler is a member of a fictional sub-species of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Nightcrawler possesses superhuman agility, the ability to teleport, and adhesive hands, in Nightcrawlers earlier comic book appearances he is depicted as being a happy-go-lucky practical joker and teaser, and a fan of swashbuckling fiction. Nightcrawler is a Catholic, and while this is not emphasized as much in his comic book appearances. Since his inception, Nightcrawler has had a presence in Marvel-related comic books. He has been featured in a number of the 1990s X-Men animated series episodes and was a regular on its successors, X-Men, Evolution and Wolverine. In 2003, he was portrayed by Alan Cumming in the film X2, Nightcrawler is originally stated to be from a small village called Witzeldorf in the German state of Bavaria. Dave Cockrum originally created Nightcrawler while he was in the United States Navy and he recounted, I sat up one night in the middle of a typhoon because it was too noisy to sleep, so I stayed up and thought up this character. Originally, Nightcrawler was a demon from Hell who had flubbed a mission and he was supposed to be the sidekick of another superhero character that I had created named The Intruder. At this point Nightcrawler wore trunks instead of a full costume, Cockrum submitted the character to be part of a group of characters called The Outsiders, set in the universe of DC Comics Legion of Super-Heroes series. As Nightcrawler had been rejected by DC, when Cockrum started work on the new X-Men in 1975, because editor Roy Thomas wanted the new X-Men to be a multinational group, it was decided to make Nightcrawler German. Although an X-Men character for years, Nightcrawler did not get his own comic book title until November 1985, in the four-issue limited series Nightcrawler, along with Lockheed, accidentally travel to several alternate dimensions, meeting strange beings such as the Bamfs. After various adventures, Nightcrawler and Lockheed manage to get home safely, a second four-issue limited series was published in November 2002. Written by Chris Kipiniak and penciled by Matthew Dow Smith, it focuses upon Nightcrawlers decision to become a priest, in September 2004, the first Nightcrawler ongoing title was published by Marvel, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa with covers and pencils by Darick Robertson. The series was canceled with issue twelve, in 2014, a new Nightcrawler ongoing title commenced, written by Chris Claremont. This was also cancelled with issue twelve, Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge until puberty. Margali Szardos, a sorceress and Gypsy queen, allegedly found Kurt an hour after his birth, in a small roadside shelter in the Black Forest with his father lying dead on the road outside. However, this claim was called into question, and it was subsequently proven that Kurts mother is Mystique, also known as Raven Darkholme

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Astonishing X-Men
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Astonishing X-Men is the name of three X-Men comic book series from Marvel Comics, the first two of which were limited series. The ongoing series began in 2004, with its first run written by Joss Whedon and it was then written by Warren Ellis with art by Simone Bianchi and Phil Jimenez. Daniel Way and Christos Gage then took over the title writing alternating stories and they were followed by James Asmus who wrote one issue, then Greg Pak, who took over for four issues in November 2011. Marjorie Liu wrote the final 21 issues of the series until its end at issue #68, in this storyline, Professor X was murdered 20 years in the past by his own son, Legion. Magneto, witnessing his friends death, committed himself to Xaviers dream, however, he was unable to prevent the rise of the despotic Apocalypse and hence the series primarily dealt with the X-Mens battle against him. Astonishing X-Men, written by Scott Lobdell and illustrated by Joe Madureira, featured a team of X-Men led by Rogue and consisted of Sunfire, Blink, Morph, Sabretooth and Wildchild. The second limited series to bear the title Astonishing X-Men was published in 1999, in the three-issue series, most of the regular X-Men left the team over a conflict with Professor X. The three-issue series, written by Howard Mackie and illustrated by Brandon Peterson, featured a team consisting of Cyclops, Phoenix, Wolverine, Archangel, Cable. This team protected the Mannites from Death, a horseman of Apocalypse, in 2004, Marvel used the title Astonishing X-Men for an ongoing X-Men series written by Joss Whedon and illustrated by John Cassaday. It is a continuation of Grant Morrisons New X-Men title and features a similar line-up of characters, including Cyclops and Emma Frost, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Lockheed and this team became the usual focus for most X-Men limited series published during Whedons run as well. Whedon/Cassadays Astonishing X-Men run introduced a number of characters into the Marvel Universe including Kavita Rao, Special Agent Brand. Hisako Ichiki, Ord of the Breakworld and Blindfold, Whedons run on the series was a critical and commercial success. The roster of the book was also the focus of limited series at the time, such as X-Men, Phoenix—Endsong, X-Men, Phoenix—Warsong and World War Hulk. The first story arc focused on the introduction of key characters. Whedon introduced a mutant cure designed by Indian Benetech scientist Dr. Kavita Rao, the prospect of real humanity arouses the interest of a heavily mutated Beast, who visits Rao only to discover that the drug is the product of illegal human experimentation on an unknown victim. The X-Men raid Benetech and reunite with Colossus, with Colossuss help, the team takes down Ord, but not before its revealed that a mutant would destroy Ords home planet, the Breakworld, within the next three years. With this 2005 arc, Whedon brought back Colossus four years after his comic book death in 2001, the mutant cure plot was also the basis of the X-Men, The Last Stand movie plot. The arc was critically lauded and won the 2006 Will Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series, IGN called the arc best X-Men run in a decade and lauded Whedon for flawless character dynamics

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Joss Whedon
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Joss Whedon is an American screenwriter, film and television director, film and television producer, comic book author, and composer. H. I. E. L. D. Whedon co-wrote the Pixar film Toy Story, wrote and directed the Firefly film continuation Serenity, co-wrote and his mother, Ann Lee Stearns, originally from Kentucky, was a teacher at Riverdale Country School as Lee Whedon, and an aspiring novelist. His parents had both acted, and appeared in a play together at the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Whedon is the younger sibling of Samuel and Matthew Whedon and older sibling of writers Jed and Zack Whedon. At a young age, he showed great interest in British television with shows like Masterpiece, in May 2003, Whedon received an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan University. Whedon attended Riverdale Country School in New York City where his mother taught history. He then spent three years at Winchester College in England, where, taking note of omnipresent bullying, he concluded, Whedon graduated from Wesleyan University in 1987, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2013. There, he studied under renowned academic Richard Slotkin. After leaving Wesleyan, Whedon came up with the first incarnation of Buffy Summers, Rhonda, from 1989 to 1990, Whedon worked as a staff writer on the sitcoms Roseanne and Parenthood. As a script doctor, Whedon was a writer on films like The Getaway, Speed, Waterworld, Twister. X-Men reportedly contained only two dialogue exchanges of Whedons contribution, but the cut of Speed left in most of his dialogue. E. The former of which earned him a shared Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, Whedon has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the released versions of the films Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Titan A. E. and Alien, Resurrection. The idea came directly from his aversion to seeing the Hollywood formula of the blonde girl who goes into a dark alley. Whedon said he wanted to subvert the idea and create someone who was a hero and this conception came from the very first mission statement of the show, which was the joy of female power, having it, using it, sharing it. The writing process came together from conversations about the issues facing Buffy Summers. Whedon usually directed episodes from his own scripts that held the most cathartic moments in Buffys story, the series received numerous awards and nominations, including an Emmy Award nomination for the 1999 episode Hush. The final episode Chosen was nominated for a Best Dramatic Presentation, All written and directed by Whedon, they are considered some the most effective and popular episodes of the series. Scholar A. Asbjørn Jøn recognized that the series has shifted the way vampires have since been depicted in popular culture representations, in June 2012, Slate magazine identified it as the most written about popular culture text of all time. Ore than twice as many papers, essays, and books have been devoted to the drama than any of our other choices—so many that we stopped counting when we hit 200

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X-Men: Manifest Destiny
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Manifest Destiny is an American comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics through the X-Men related titles and a number of limited series, including a self-titled one. The arc was a follow-up to the storyline entitled Divided We Stand which started in the issues cover dated September 2008, Manifest Destiny deals with the change in the X-Men when they shift their headquarters from Westchester to San Francisco. This is the first time the X-Men have changed their headquarters since their relocation to Australia during the 1980s. This will be followed by X-Infernus, the sequel to Inferno, the X-Men, Manifest Destiny mini-series itself, is an anthology. The lead story is focused on Iceman and his journey to San Francisco and it is written by Mike Carey, with pencils by Michael Ryan. There are two stories in every issue, focusing on different characters and their lives in San Francisco. The X-Men open their new base in San Francisco and send a telepathic invitation to every remaining mutant on Earth and their first fights were against Magneto, Sentinels and the newly formed Hellfire Cult. This is also the introduction to the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, the Astonishing X-Men shows up with a new line-up. Their first mission was to investigate the murder of an undiscovered mutant, x-Force captures Bishop and brings him to the X-Men Headquarters in San Francisco, while Cable is seen fighting in the future. Cyclops secretly meets with Xavier as one last favor to his former teacher, elsewhere, the Hellfire Club is discussing Sunspot leaving their ranks and the void that leaves. As Sebastian Shaw tries to create order, Castlemere and his newfound cybernetic upgrades lay waste to another member of the Hellfire Club. Rogue makes her way to the X-Mens former base in Australia and ends up having a heart to heart talk with Mystique, cyclops takes Sunspot and Danielle as mentors of the Young X-Men. After establishing a cathedral in San Francisco as their new base, the Young X-Men form their team which includes Ink, Anole, Rockslide, and Dust. Iceman lands at a hospital after taking a flight with Opal Tanaka, disguised as a doctor, Mystique injects Iceman with a neural inhibitor but he manages to escape and flee on a truck. Mystique finds him yet again and destroys the truck, much to the truck drivers dismay, Iceman saves him and asks him to contact the X-Men, while he faces off with Mystique and tells her to shoot him while looking him in the eyes. Other short stories include, Boom-Boom being defeated by Nuwa but taking her revenge by using coffee, karma failing to possess Emma Frost and realizing she needs to get her focus back. The Juggernaut hesitating between a life of crime or as a hero, Emma Frost coming to terms with the fact that the X-Men have accepted her. Anole and Greymalkin bonding over their sexuality while Beast explores Greymalkins history, wolverine and Nightcrawler failing to cheer up Colossus, whose mood lightens when he helps a girl save her kitty

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Secret Invasion
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Secret Invasion is a comic book crossover storyline that ran through a self-titled eight issue limited series and several tie-in books published by Marvel Comics from April through December 2008. The story involves a subversive, long-term invasion of Earth by the alien Skrulls, capable of shapeshifting, the Skrulls have secretly replaced many of Marvels heroes with impostors over a period of years, prior to the overt invasion. Marvels promotional tagline for the event was Who do you trust, writer Brian Michael Bendis stated in interviews that the motivation for the invasion is the destruction of the Skrull Empire in the Annihilation storyline. The limited series concluded the plot and was, according to Bendis, in November 2007, several ongoing titles and mini-series were branded as tie-ins to the main Secret Invasion storyline, with the tagline, Secret Invasion, The Infiltration. In addition to the story, the Avengers titles provided additional plot material. Other Marvel titles also featured variant covers with the characters depicted as Skrulls and they attack the Skrull Empire, and warn that any further invasion attempts of Earth would mean further reprisals. However, they are all captured and intensely studied before escaping, an eventual successor to the Skrull throne, Princess Veranke, claims that a prophecy foretold the annihilation of the Skrull homeworld. The current Emperor, Dorrek, exiles her to a world for inciting religious extremism. The Skrulls capture several superhumans and infiltrate Earths defenses, with Veranke herself posing as heroine Spider-Woman, Veranke, however, is inconvenienced when there is a breakout of supervillains at the Raft prison, which forces her to join the New Avengers team. Elektra, the leader of the group the Hand, is revealed to be a Skrull named Pagon after dying in battle with the New Avengers. Veranke takes the corpse to Tony Stark to sow distrust among the superhero community and she joins the Mighty Avengers, claiming it will throw the Skrulls off balance. Posing as agents of spy organization S. H. I. E. L. D, the Skrulls attempt to mine the metal vibranium in the Savage Land and battle the New Avengers before being killed. The Illuminati battle an impostor posing as Black Bolt and two new Super-Skrulls, possessing all-new powers, the Skrull invasion destabilizes the superhuman community as, Simultaneous strikes disable the S. H. I. E. L. D. Helicarrier and orbiting base The Peak, a breakout is instigated at the supervillain holding facility the Raft. The Baxter Building headquarters of the Fantastic Four is transported to the Negative Zone, the Thunderbolt Mountain headquarters of the Thunderbolts is attacked. After several battles between Earths heroes and the Skrulls in Manhattan and the Savage Land, Mr. Fantastic manages to develop a device that can detect the aliens, criminal kingpin the Hood aids the heroes, deciding that no more Earth is bad for business. Veranke regroups with her forces in New York, and a battle against the combined Avengers. In a final battle, Veranke is wounded by the Avenger Hawkeye, criti Noll activates a booby trap placed on the heroine Wasp, although the blast is contained by Thor at the cost of her life

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X-Men (comic book)
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X-Men was a comic book ongoing series published by Marvel Comics featuring its namesake superhero team. The previous volume, which began publication in September 2010 and for most of its run featured team-ups between the X-Men and other Marvel characters, ended at issue #41 in February 2013. As part of Marvel NOW. the title was relaunched as a new series written by Brian Wood, the 2010 X-Men series was the third ongoing series to launch with the title following the first series in 1963 and the second series in 1991. As a result, the story arcs featured a guest appearance from characters from the Marvel Universe ranging from Spider-Man to Blade. From issues #30 to #37 the title took a change in direction, focusing on Storm leading a security team of X-Men, the team-up elements were brief brought back in issues #38 and #39. As part of Marvel NOW. the series ended at issue #41 in February 2013, a new volume of the title written by Brian Wood, who also wrote issues #30 to #37 of the previous volume, began in May 2013. Marc Guggenheim will take over the title starting with issue #18, X-Men has been cancelled with issue #26 being its last issue. The first story arc, Curse of the Mutants, comprising issues #1–6, involves the X-Men battling the vampire nations, an interlude story then followed with Professor X telling Jubilee of an earlier encounter he had with the vampire Raizo Kodo. This was followed by the First to Last storyline, which began with X-Men Giant-Size #1, another one-shot story saw a team of X-Men team up with the new female Ghost Rider to battle a mystical enemy. The most recent storyline featured the Future Foundation teaming up with the X-Men, the team-up aspect of the title remained, with the first arc featuring War Machine. This was followed by the return of Raizo Kodo for an arc dealing with Jubilees Vampirism, issue #38 featured a return to the team-up elements of the book, and features Domino and Daredevil. X-Men at the Grand Comics Database X-Men at the Comic Book DB

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Cable and X-Force
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Cable and X-Force was an ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics that began in February 2013, as part of Marvel NOW. The series finds Cable awakening after Avengers vs. X-Men and on the run with his new team of X-Force from the Uncanny Avengers, the series was replaced by X-Force Volume 4. In mid-September,2012, Marvel Comics announced that a new title Cable and X-Force would be published in December, headed by the team of Dennis Hopeless. As part of the All-New Marvel NOW. campaign, a new volume of X-Force was launched in February 2014, replacing Cable and X-Force and it features a team of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow, written by X-Men, Legacy writer Simon Spurrier. Cable seeks the help of Dr. Nemesis because of the headaches and he builds him a mechanical arm since his left arm atrophied due to lack of use all the time it was metal from the Techno-organic virus. He cannot fix his eye, so he covers it with an eye patch. Cable is then able to help Forge cure his illness by using his telepathic powers. Hope teams up with Domino in order to find Cable, who has been missing since the events of Messiah Complex. After being reunited with one another, Cable and Hope both share a vision in which a tanker hits the shore in Miami Beach and from which a mysterious mass comes out, a few days later, Havok finds Cable and his team surrounded by multiple dead bodies. He then tries to confront them about the massacre but instead of explaining himself, Cable uses a teleportation gate, after running away from the Avengers, Colossus get into an argument with Cable about the fact that they had to kill the workers in the facility. Some days earlier, Domino saves people from the mass in Miami Beach by teaming up with Hope. After getting a sample of the mass, as instructed by Doctor Nemesis, meanwhile, Cable undergoes brain surgery and it turns out that despite the fact that he woke up, his brain is still swelling which could lead to a potential death. Despite the warnings of his teammates, and especially Domino, Cable goes to deal with a threat he sensed with the help of Colossus, Teresa Payton, an outspoken anti-mutant and Eat-More’s owner, sends her men to capture Forge as he tries to hack Eat-More’s HQ. He later finds out that Teresa lost her daughter during Xorn’s attack on New York which is why she has been so vocal against mutant’s rights, however, she is not the one who created the virus. Cable and Dr. Nemesis then go straight to the Eat-More facility in order to destroy the virus, Doctor Nemesis, who had been trying to find a cure to the virus the entire time, realizes that his attempts have backfired because the victims only became even more dangerous. The only option left is to not only destroy the virus, despite Colossus’ fervent protests, Cable orders him to carry out the kill-order. The authorities, including Havok and his Uncanny Avengers, only arrived after all the mutated bodies morphed back to their regular human forms and were strewn dead across the floor. After destroying the headquarters and using the gate to run away from Havok and his team, X-Force decides to split up

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Salvador Larroca
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Salvador Larroca is a Spanish comic book artist, primarily known for his work on various X-Men titles. After several years of working as a cartographer, he working as a comic artist at Marvel UK. Larroca was working at Marvel UK when he contributed to Dark Angel, at some point, Larroca began to work on mainstream North American comics, such as DC Comics Flash. Afterwards, Larroca did a run on Marvel Comics Ghost Rider. It was not until after his run on Ghost Rider, that Larroca would gain the exposure needed to become known as one of the most prominent comic book artists in The United States. After the departure of Alan Davis on Fantastic Four, Larroca was give the reins along with writer Chris Claremont, Larroca and Claremont had a three-year-long run on the title. Larroca then proceeded to rejoin with writer Chris Claremont, on X-Treme X-Men, Larroca stayed on the title for twenty-four issues, at which point he was asked to work on the initial run of Marvels new Tsunami imprint title, called Namor. Meanwhile, Larroca worked on various projects, including Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra. Larroca was asked to draw fill-in issues of Uncanny X-Men and X-Men and these issues led up to the X-Men Reload event, as the titles gained new writers, artists, and story direction. Larroca joined with writer Chuck Austen on X-Men, during his run of X-Men, Larroca took a side job drawing Spider-Man, House of M mini-series. Larroca was drawing X-Men, but with a new writer on the title and he left X-Men in June and is joining Warren Ellis on newuniversal, a remake of Marvels New Universe. From 2008 to 2012, Larroca illustrated writer Matt Fractions run on The Invincible Iron Man, Comics work includes, Avengers, The Initiative Annual #1 Avengers, vol. 5, #25-28 Cable #24 Cable and X-Force #1-14 Darth Vader #1-25 Death of Wolverine, The Weapon X #1- Eminem/Punisher Excalibur #107–110 Fantastic Four, vol. 3, #4–34 Fantastic Four 2000 Fear Itself #7.3 Gambit,3, #51-69,72, 75-81 Heroes Reborn, The Return, miniseries, #1–4 Incredible Hulk Annual #20 Iron Man, vol. 3, #15 Invincible Iron Man #1-33, then continued from #500-527 Mighty Avengers vol

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Extraordinary X-Men
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Extraordinary X-Men is a comic series from Marvel Comics and the flagship X-Men title under the All-New, All-Different Marvel re-branding. The story takes place following the conclusion of the Secret Wars crossover event, mutants are again faced with possible extinction due to Terrigen Mist which causes exposed mutants to become sterile and possibly suffer from a fatal degenerative disease called M-Pox. The gas also prevents the activation of the X-Gene, jeff Lemire was brought on board to reboot the X-men series All New X-Men became the new flagship X-Title and Uncanny X-Men was taken over by Magneto. Humberto Ramos was the penciler and Victor Olazaba the inker, after the release of the Terrigen Mist, Storm, Iceman and Magik have decided to leave the Westchester and establish X-Haven in the Limbo dimension. However, before they go they try to recruit old friends, Colossus, living quietly in Russia, Nightcrawler, recently abducted, and All-New X-Men Jean Grey, Jean initially refuses to join, but reveals that she has sensed Wolverine, who should be dead. Storm is successful in only recruiting Colossus, but as he and Magik go to investigate Nightcrawlers disappearance, Mister Sinister is experimenting on blending Inhuman DNA with Mutant DNA. He hopes that Magiks sorcery will be the key, since all previous experiments failed, when he knocks out Magik, the defenses for X-Haven fall apart and demons start attacking the school. Storm, Ice Man, Anole, Glob Herman, Ernst, back in NYC, Jean Grey is disgusted when she sees humans attacking an Inhuman, thinking hes a mutant. She uses her powers and her current boyfriend Chris is disgusted that hes dating a mutant. She then meets with Old Man Logan and convinces him that hes from a different timeline he wont kill the X-Men in this dimension. They are then teleported to X-Haven and help with the final defenses before Forge powers up a shield, with X-Haven safe, they travel to Nightcrawlers last location and Wolverine tracks them into the sewers where they confront Mister Sinister and the Marauders. He reveals hes only trying to save the mutant race, and his only experiment to blend the Inhuman and mutants was a clone of Cyclops, who then rampages through New York City. After the battle, Storm announces that the X-Men are opening X-Haven to any mutant seeking sanctuary from the Terrigen Mist, the speech goes viral and mutants respond from around the world. After a successful mission in the Savage Land to rescue Sunfire, Anole, No-Girl, Glob Herman, and Ernst begin training. Storm doesnt trust Sunfire, since she claims that he and Cyclops caused the Terrigen Mist and they then rescue Nightcrawler, who is being hunted down by a mob in Germany. Storm and Jean delve into his mind to rid him of his instability, but find out he discovered a mutant genocide. Cerebro then discovers 600 mutant signatures, called the Ark, in Toyko and agrees to send Colossus, sugar Man was experimenting with mutant genomes and starts a self destruct, but Colossus and his team teleport with it into the future. Storm and the Extraordinary X-Men quickly follow, but the one minute delay turns into 12 months difference in the time line

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Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
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Magik is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most often in relation to the X-Men. She first appeared in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1, Magik is the younger sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus. She is a member of a fictional sub-species of humanity known as mutants and her natural mutant power is the ability to teleport. She also is a capable sorceress, Illyana first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1, though her first name was not given until Uncanny X-Men #145. For the first eight years of the existence, she was an infrequently appearing background character. These changes were not immediately explored or explained, and for the year she remained essentially a background character. In December 1983, the limited series Magik was launched, chronicling Illyanas years in Limbo, as the younger sister of Colossus and a member of the New Mutants, she also sporadically appeared as a guest star in Uncanny X-Men. In Uncanny X-Men #303, she dies of the Legacy Virus, other than flashbacks and alternate realities, she was absent from regular publication for most of the 1990s, though she does appear as a time-traveler in New Mutants, Truth or Death #1-3. After being resurrected by Belasco, she returned to publication in 2007, in New X-Men #38-41, X-Infernus #1-4, X-Men, Hellbound #1-3. As a member of Cyclops Extinction Team, she appears in Uncanny X-Men #1-20, Avengers vs. X-Men #1-12, AVX, Versus #3 and she appears in All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Extraordinary X-Men as a regular character. Illyana Rasputin was born in the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to Nikolai Rasputin, Illyanas two older brothers, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin and Colossus are also mutants. Colossus superhuman powers manifest while saving Illyana from a runaway tractor, at six years old, Illyana is abducted and brought to the United States by Arcade, who uses her and several other hostages to coerce the X-Men into opposing Doctor Doom. She is rescued and brought back to the X-Mansion, shortly thereafter, Illyana is called to the Limbo dimension by Belasco, who seeks to bring forth the Elder Gods to rule Earth. She is raised there, frequently bullied and tormented by Belascos underling Sym, in order to free himself, Belasco needs to fill the Beatrix Medallion with five bloodstones. The bloodstones are created by corrupting Illyanas soul, with a new stone appearing as her corruption deepens and she is rescued and tutored in the practice of white magic by that dimensions version of Storm. Finding the use of magic abhorrent, Limbos version of Shadowcat, known as Cat, kidnaps and trains Illyana in hand to hand, Cat, along with Illyana, storms Belascos citadel. They are overwhelmed by Belasco who further transforms Cat into a demonic creature. With Illyana back under his control, Belasco instructs her in the art of magic in the hopes that it will further corrupt her soul

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Iceman (Marvel Comics)
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Iceman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is a founding member of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1, Iceman is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. He has the ability to manipulate ice and cold by freezing water vapor around him and this allows him to freeze objects, as well as turn his body into ice. The character has been present in X-Men and Spider-Man-related comics, video games, animated series. Shawn Ashmore portrayed Iceman in the X-Men films, and voices the character in The Super Hero Squad Show, created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in X-Men #1. Lee later admitted that Iceman was created essentially as a copy of the Human Torch, only using the opposite element for his power. Iceman was featured in two self-titled limited comic book miniseries, one in 1984-85 written by J. M. DeMatteis and another in the 2000s by Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett, with art by Karl Kerschl. DeMatteis said of the first series, It was my idea, so there was no one to blame, ill just say that it was a mistake and if the series made any sense whatsoever it was due to Bob Budiansky. That was a case where the input was really needed -. A mainstay in most X-Men titles, Iceman has been a character in both Uncanny X-Men and the second volume of X-Men and was also featured in the Champions. He was a character in the first volume of X-Factor. This raised questions, because the adult, present-day counterpart had previously been portrayed dating women. In Uncanny X-Men #600, which was published in November that year, the young Iceman confronts his older self, Robert Louis Bobby Drake was born in Port Washington, Long Island, New York, to William Robert Drake and Madeline Beatrice Bass-Drake. His father is Irish Catholic, and his mother is Jewish, Bobbys powers first manifested when he was on a date with Judy Harmon, and a local bully by the name of Rocky Beasely tried to take Judy away for himself. Knowing Judy could not put up a fight, Bobby pointed his hand at Beasely. Later, the townspeople, having heard of the incident. The local sheriff had no choice but to put Bobby in jail for his own protection, while Bobby sat in his cell at the sheriff station, the outer wall was blown open, and a young man named Scott Summers walked in and offered to take Bobby with him. After Bobby turned him down, the two mutants got into a battle, which was soon ended by the arrival of Professor Charles Xavier

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Jean Grey
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Jean Grey-Summers is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1. Jean Grey is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants and she was born with telepathic and telekinetic powers. Her powers first manifested when she saw her friend being hit by a car. She is a caring, nurturing figure, but she also has to deal with being an Omega-level mutant, Jean Grey experienced a transformation into the Phoenix in the X-Men storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga. She has faced numerous times in the history of the series. Her first death was under her guise as Marvel Girl, when she died and was reborn as Phoenix in The Dark Phoenix Saga and this transformation led to her second death, which was suicide, though not her last. The character was present for much of the X-Mens history, famke Janssen portrayed the character in five installments of the X-Men films. Sophie Turner portrays a version in the 2016 film X-Men. In 2006, IGN rated Jean Grey #6 on their list of Top 25 X-Men from the past forty years and her Dark Phoenix persona was ranked 9th in IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time list, the highest rank for a female character. She was ranked third in Comics Buyers Guides 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list, created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, Jean first appeared as Marvel Girl in X-Men #1. The original teams sole female member, Marvel Girl was a part of the team through the series publication. Initially possessing the ability of telekinesis, the character was granted the power of telepathy. She began a relationship with Scott Summers, which persisted as her romantic relationship throughout the X-Men franchise. In an attempt to save her fellow X-Men by piloting their damaged shuttle back to earth, dying but determined to save Scott and her friends, Jeans love pushed her to reach her full potential as a psychic and telekinetic. The ship landed in Jamaica Bay, with the other X-Men unharmed, Jean then surfaced wearing a new green and gold costume and adopted the codename Phoenix, having gained immense powers. Eventually, in a moment of mental clarity, Jean committed suicide to ensure the universes. This storyline is one of the most well-known and heavily referenced in mainstream American superhero comics, when the first trade paperback of The Dark Phoenix Saga was published in 1984, Marvel also published a 48-page special issue titled Phoenix, The Untold Story

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Sentinel (comics)
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The Sentinels are a fictional variety of mutant-hunting robots appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are usually portrayed as antagonists to the X-Men, the Sentinels have been featured in several X-Men video games, and played a large role in the 1990s X-Men animated series. Additionally, a version made a brief appearance in the beginning of the 2006 film, X-Men. They are featured prominently in the 2014 film X-Men, Days of Future Past and also appear at the end of the 2016 film X-Men, in 2009, the Sentinels were ranked by IGN as the 38th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they first appeared in The X-Men #14, according to Marvel canon, Sentinels are programmed to locate mutants and capture or kill them. Though several types of Sentinels have been introduced, the typical Sentinel is three stories tall, is capable of flight, projects energy blasts, and can detect mutants. Sentinels are designed to hunt mutants who often represent the protagonists of Marvel stories, therefore, while many are capable of tactical thought, only a handful are self-aware. Sentinels are technologically advanced, and have exhibited a variety of abilities. They are armed, capable of flight, and can detect mutants at long range and they possess vast physical strength, and their bodies are highly resistant to damage. Some are able to alter their physical forms or re-assemble and reactivate themselves after they have been destroyed, Some Sentinel variants have the ability to learn from their experiences, developing their defenses during an engagement. Several groups of the robots have been created or led by a single, massive Sentinel, Some sentinels are also equipped with an inconspicuous logic loop in case they should go rogue to convince them that they are mutants as demonstrated in the tri-sentinel. Mark I and Master Mold - Created by Bolivar Trask, Bolivar Trask sacrificed himself to destroy the Master Mold. Mark II - Created by Larry Trask and this model was capable of adapting to and counter-acting super-powers almost instantly. Composite - Created by merging the remaining portions of five Sentinels destroyed by the X-Men and it was destroyed by her when it rebelled against her. Mark III - Created by Stephen Lang and Project, Armageddon, secretly funded by Edward Buckman, x-Sentinels - Created by Stephen Lang. They are androids who were duplicates of the original X-Men, Mark IV - Created by Sebastian Shaw. Mark V - Created by Sebastian Shaw for U. S. governments Project Wideawake, First appeared in New Mutants #2. Mark VI - Created by Shaw Industries for Project, Wideawake, also incorporated parts of Project Nimrod

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Old Man Logan
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Old Man Logan is an alternative version of Marvel Comics popular character Wolverine. This character is an aged Wolverine set in a future universe designated as Earth-807128. Originally introduced as a miniseries in the series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven. After the Death of Wolverine, X-23 took the mantle of Wolverine, Old Man Logan actually debuted as a character in Mark Millars run on Fantastic Four, which featured characters who are heavily implied to be the aged Wolverine and Bruce Banner Jr. as an adult. Wolverine, Old Man Logan started as a storyline from the Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven. The series ran through Wolverine #66–72 and ended in Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan in September 2009, Old Man Logan debuted in his solo series during the 2015 Secret Wars storyline, written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Andrea Sorrentino. This story is continued in a series with the same name beginning in January 2016. The United States has been conquered and divided among supervillains, with territories belonging to Abomination, Magneto, Doctor Doom and the Red Skull, Heroes have been wiped out of existence with the few survivors in hiding. Logan lives with his wife Maureen and young children Scotty and Jade on a plot of land in Sacramento, California. Needing money to pay rent to his landlords the Hulk Gang, Logan accepts a job from a now-blind Hawkeye to help him travel east to the capital of New Babylon, Logan and Hawkeye encounter several diversions on their journey. They rescue Hawkeyes daughter Ashley Barton from the clutches of the new Kingpin and she murders Kingpin and reveals her intention to seize his territory of Hammer Falls. They escape a cluster of Moloids who are destroying cities by sinking them from beneath the surface and they then get chased by a Venom symbiote-infused dinosaur, but they are rescued and teleported by the White Queen and Black Bolt. Throughout the story it is reiterated that the Wolverine persona died the day the villains attacked, flashbacks reveal that on the night the attack happened, a group of 40 supervillains attacked the X-Mansion. Unable to locate his teammates, Wolverine slaughtered the attackers to ensure the safety of the mutant children, as the last attacker Bullseye was killed, Logan realized that the entire assault was an illusion created by Mysterio, and his perceived enemies were actually his fellow X-Men. This destroyed Wolverine emotionally and mentally, and he fled the mansion and wandered away to a track in shock. Though he made a subsequent suicide attempt by allowing a train to run him over, Logan could not actually kill himself. When they arrive at the capital, Hawkeye delivers his package to a resistance group hoping to begin a new team like the Avengers. The package is contains Super Soldier Serum, enough to form an army and they shoot and kill Logan and Hawkeye

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Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a union of national republics, but its government. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 and this established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and started the Russian Civil War between the revolutionary Reds and the counter-revolutionary Whites. In 1922, the communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, following Lenins death in 1924, a collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed all opposition to his rule, committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. Shortly before World War II, Stalin signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Nazi Germany, in June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theater of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945, the territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. Following Stalins death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as de-Stalinization and Khrushchevs Thaw, the country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The USSR took a lead in the Space Race with Sputnik 1, the first ever satellite, and Vostok 1. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, the war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing the economic stagnation, the Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well, in August 1991, a coup détat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states